Chennai is witnessing the classical development versus environmental debate yet again as students, faculty and well wishers of the Pachayappa’s College are up in arms against the State Government’s proposal to raze the lush green campus and make way for a metro station in its vicinity. All this is happening at a time when global efforts are being taken to understand the economical value of ecosystem services provided by natural resources.

CHENNAI: With a view to improving the condition of city’s bus route and interior roads, the Chennai Corporation has planned a Rs. 112-crore re-laying works from the next week.

CHENNAI: With Chennai, like many other cities, running desperately short of parking spaces, experts suggest that parking should be treated as a commodity with appropriate pricing mechanisms for eff

“That the garbage clearance will improve once the Corporation takes over is only a convenient excuse. He is supposed to ensure that the garbage is cleared every day. But it is done only once a week. The stench is unbearable, especially after a spell of rain,” says SD Sankaralingam, a resident of Sunrise Avenue.

Former students and professors joined the students of Pachaiyappa’s College on Tuesday to voice their unhappiness over the acquiring of land for the proposed construction of a Metro Rail station on the campus.
Demanding that the Metro Rail station proposed to be constructed there be relocated to another place, over 400 students staged a protest near the Memorial Hall.

More than six lakh people are gasping for breath in Kodungaiyur as the city dumps its waste on a vacant piece of land that has been allegedly earmarked by the Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority as a place for institutional purposes in its second master plan.

CHENNAI: In an effort to fulfill the drinking water needs of Chennai, a new reservoir would be set up in Tiurvallur district, besides desilting work on six other lakes at an estimated cost of `620 crore, Minister for Public Works KV Ramalingam said here on Sunday.

CHENNAI: The drinking water supplied in several areas of Meenambakkam by the local Town Panchayat is discoloured and muddy. This has left the residents shocked, besides leaving them with too little water for everyday use.

CHENNAI: The residents of Avadi Municipality will soon be receiving drinking water to quench their thirst and a sewerage network to dispose off the waste water by November 2011, according to Metro Water Managing Director Dr K Gopal.  The water supply and underground sewerage scheme worth `261.89 crore which includes building eight overhead tanks, seven underground tanks, distribution of mainline for a length of 328 km and a pumping main for a length of 19 km will benefit 3.4 lakh people, said Gopal on Thursday.

CHENNAI: Expediting her efforts to see a litter-free State capital very soon, Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Monday set a three-month deadline for cleaning up the entire Chennai and its suburban areas.