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Residents urge the civic body to clear piled up garbage in the city
There was no door-to-door garbage collection by the sanitary workers. However, the situation is understandable due to heavy rain from Sunday and many...
Rainwater enters Kolkata hospitals, affects services
21 Sept 2021Treatment of patients at a few hospitals in Kolkata including the state-run SSKM Medical College and Hospital were badly affected while life-saving...
Editorial: Wasting away, a tonne at a time
11 Nov 2021Our city of Chennai is going through a tumultuous phase with torrential rains lashing at it since Sunday. Excavators clearing stormwater drains and...
Cut-and-cover drain in Chitlapakkam reduced flooding by 75 percent
15 Nov 2021The cut-and-cover drain prevented inundation at Chitlapakkam even after receiving intense rainfall last week. Residents said till 2017, the locality...
Blackout, fuming UG power cable plague SI quarters in Pulianthope
15 Nov 2021Families of police personnel staying in Sub inspectors quarters in Pulianthope had been struggling without power supply for the last eight days and...
Parks, grounds to store excess rainwater
6 Dec 2021GCC mulling underground sumps as temporary relief to residents in vulnerable areas
No end to water woes of Madurai’s Harveypatti
9 Dec 2021Residents of SRV Nagar near Harveypatti in Madurai have complained that the rainwater had been stagnating for days in their locality and the sewage...
GCC failed to fix gradients, reverse flows
18 Dec 2021Apart from the poor management of ponds, similarly to the other affected areas, the storm water drain network in Kolathur has been poorly linked.