A portrait of martyred Major Mukund Varadharajan in Chennai. File
| Photo Credit: R. Ravindran

The Velachery-Tambaram High Road will soon be renamed after Major Mukund Varadarajan, who was martyred during a counter-terrorism operation while on deputation to the 4th Battalion of the Rashtriya Rifles in Jammu and Kashmir in April 2014.

He, in August 2014, was posthumously awarded the Ashoka Chakra, India’s highest peacetime gallantry award.

“The proposal to rename the road has been under consideration for a long time. We placed it before the Corporation Council and forwarded it to the government,” a senior official from the Tambaram City Municipal Corporation said. The official added that the name change is expected to take effect over the next few weeks.

Major Varadarajan spent his early years in the locality, and the road is being renamed to honour his sacrifice and commemorate his association with the area. His story reached a wider audience through the Sivakarthikeyan-starrer Tamil film Amaran that was released in October 2024.

Published – June 13, 2026 12:58 am IST