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Reporter’s Diary: How rumours led to loss of an ‘attractive’ water machine from Ripon bldg
When the Greater Chennai Corporation installed a machine to tap water from the air on a pilot basis, the contraption became a local attraction and every employee who passed by it, stood for a while to observe what the machine was and how it functioned.
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Even newspapers carried reports that officials were contemplating to install the machines in all offices of the civic body if it provided water at a low cost.
All that excitement and curiosity, however, played spoilsport. Within two days, the machine was removed from Ripon Building after the rumours spread beyond the civic body.
According to sources in Ripon Building, the news of bulk purchase of the water machine made a few senior officials at the Corporation unhappy as they did not expect the news to get out.
“If the unknown person, possibly from the manufacturer’s side, had refrained from spreading the rumours, the machine would still have been at the civic body’s headquarters,” an official said.
There is a precedence to this too. When J Jayalalithaa was the Chief Minister, a proposal for a corporation-run medical college in the city was shaping up.
The civic body had even sent a proposal on it to state government, but media reports appeared even before an official announcement could be made and the project was scrapped.
— Rudhran Baraasu, Chennai
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