Sharadha Narayanan | ENS

Only seven of the total 13,702 tanks fenced; 4,695 yet to cross survery stage; 1,978 tenements on water bodies in Chennai alone
FIVE years after the Madras High Court ordered that all encroachments to water bodies in the State be cleared, the Public Works Department (PWD) is yet to begin eviction work in one-third of the tanks in Tamil Nadu.

Chennai: Imagine a Chennai city where well-known, low-lying residential areas Velachery, Madipakkam and Kotturpuram may permanently be submerged by sea water. The Napier bridge may be seen rising directly out of the sea, while the mouth of the river Cooum is pushed inland to open into the sea before the Napier Bridge. Island Grounds may cease to exist.

IN DISCUSSION: Mayor M. Subramanian in discussion with Chennai Metrowater Managing Director Rajesh Lakhoni (right), at a co-ordination meeting in Chennai on Wednesday. Chennai Corporation Commissioner D.

CHENNAI: A blanket exemption of roads on stilts in the draft Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) notification 2010 would not augur well for the peace and tranquility of southern Chennai residents, warned prominent citizens of Chennai on Thursday.

Further, it endangered the Olive Ridley turtles as their nesting spots fell right under the proposed Elevated Beach Expressway.

Stressing on the need to

CHENNAI: The State government recently gave clearance for pedestrian foot overbridges with escalators on seven busy roads across the city.

The construction of a Chennai-Bengaluru industrial corridor and a joint search for valuable rare earth materials, whose production is currently monopolised by China, are expected to be among the major strategic projects to be announced in Tokyo on Monday by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Japanese counterpart Naoto Kan.

The decision to build a Chennai-Bengaluru industrial corridor will ma

Many of the LPG-kit fitted autorickshaws in Chennai continue to run on petrol.
CHENNAI: With Transport Minister K.N.Nehru recently announcing that a deadline would soon be set for all autorickshaws and taxis in the city to switchover to LPG (liquefied petroleum gas), the issue of ambient air quality and the strategy of adopting alternative fuels to make Chennai

Will help in mapping development indicators on regular basis
CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu will soon have a centralised data resource centre to collect relevant data across all health departments.
One-stop shop
The Health Management Information System (HMIS), accessible across the various departments, will be able to function as a one-stop shop for all information on health in Tamil Nadu, and as such wil

CHENNAI: A member of a SC Committee on Solid Waste, Almitra Patel, has written to CM M Karunanidhi and Deputy CM M K Stalin asking them to intervene and protect the Chembarambakkam Lake from landfill pollution.