With most parts of Chennai witnessing no inundation during the first spell of north-east monsoon rains, the opposition AIADMK, even while pointing to the waterlogging in some parts of North Chennai, took credit for the ongoing storm water drain works and shifted the focus to ‘rain relief...
Now that the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has formally heralded the northeast monsoon in Chennai and issued a forecast of heavy to very heavy rainfall across Tamil Nadu between October 31 and November 3, Chennai got its first demonstration of how the ambitious stormwater drain project...
After a lot of data juggling on what percentage of new storm drains in Chennai are complete, the Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) has announced that 100 drain sites would be closed with centering sheets to prevent a repeat of what happened to journalist Muthukrishnan. Only on September 29,...
The ball has been set rolling for preparing a Third Master Plan (TMP) for Chennai under the aegis of the Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority (CMDA); there is high expectation that the future of the metropolis should be one of vibrancy without the “functional anarchy” tag that J.K....
