THE Chennai Corporation, as part of its cost-cutting measures, has planned to install more solar-powered streetlights in narrow streets and slum areas in the city According to May . or M Subramanian, the Corporation spent nearly Rs 18 crore a year for powering streetlights. By introducing solar-powered lights, the Corporation could reduce its expenditure, he added. The Mayor on Saturday inaugurated 60 solar-powered streetlights of 18 watts capacity, built at a cost of Rs 11 lakh, at a slum dwellings near Tod Hunter Nagar in Ward-139.
ON January 15, the production licences of three vaccine-manufacturing public enterprises under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoH&FW) were cancelled, and they were ordered to suspend production forthwith by the then Drug Controller General of India (DCGI), M.
Full to the brim: Malliga Mohan, chairperson of Madambakkam town panchayat, at the compost yard where kitchen waste is converted into manure. TAMBARAM: After remaining idle for a very long time, compost yards built in most of the town panchayats around Tambaram have started functioning. Several lakhs were spent over the years on building sheds and creating facilities to convert kitchen waste into manure in the 13 urban local bodies of Kancheepuram district that come within the Chennai Metropolitan Area.
By taking a case study from Chennai, this paper qualitatively assess pedestrian environment in an institutional zone. Techniques for assessing pedestrian facilities are discussed before undertaking evaluation of the pedestrian environment. Through this evaluation of pedestrian amenities and the quality of the pedestrian environment, the authors reveal serious shortcomings.
Access to water and control over it is not only a matter of survival but an issue of democratic participation of all citizens in the management of their country's natural resources, particularly as conflicts over water increase.
Chennai Metropolitan Area extends over 1180 sq. km and has a population of more than 8.5 million. Rapid increase in urbanization with vehicle congestion has increased menacingly on the roads of Chennai. As a result of this, gaseous pollutants and respirable and suspended particulate matter pollutants are continuously increasing in the ambient air of Chennai city. These pollutants have been assessed using high volume sampler at residential and traffic intersection sampling stations in Chennai City.
With property prices skyrocketing across the country, there are suspicions that the government is covertly leveraging its sez policy to benefit realtors
The authors assessed (i) the risk of cardiovascular disease in an industrial population in Chennai, southern India and (ii) whether the status of treatment and control of diabetes and hypertension would be different in an industrial population, which is provided free healthcare, compared with the general population of Chennai.
The Toxics Link study found high concentrations of lead in all samples of soft toys containing PVC. Even trace amounts of lead are dangerous to children.
The therapy may hold the cure for many dreaded ills
WHEN the patch on six-year-old Sumaiya Aziza's left eye was removed, her reaction, and of her parents, was like a frame out of a Bollywood scene. The tears, the joy, the incredulity, and the words, "Baba, I can see."
