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Chennai Citizen Connect: Metro Rail works render commuting along...
The Metro work did not spare one of the busiest roads in Purasawalkam. Apart from the damaged road, the overflowing sewage has become a big headache...
Citizen Connect: Arumbakkam residents urge GCC to remove barricades
Residents say the street has not been re-laid after the SWD works and the drain also has proved worthless to handle inundation during rainfall.
Citizen Connect: Refurbish Egmore railway station bus stop, urge...
For example, the bus shelter near the arterial Egmore railway station is one such structure.
‘Clean-up work going on, damaged roads surveyed, potholes being fixed’
The Greater Chennai Corporation has engaged more than 20,000 sanitation workers in the waste accumulation and garbage collection for the last 14 days
Urban jungle built atop waterbodies
Lack of desilting of lakes and ponds in the city, encroachments and uncontrolled urbanisation around them, and the insufficient number of check dams...
Drains of Chola era have formula to tackle floods
The devastation of Chennai by Cyclone Michaung has turned the focus of all sections on a better stormwater drain network that can offer a lasting and...
Heavy downpour throws life out of gear in Chennai
Kolathur, that received the highest amount of 62.44 mm of rainfall, witnessed flooding in several parts of the area. Traffic snarls also irked the...
Rain continues in city, so does sewage complaints
The urbanisation has rapidly increased the houses from 500 to 5,000 in the area in last 10 years
