The earliest proposal to clean the rive was mooted in 1890
CHENNAI: The Cooum question never vanishes. C.N. Annadurai, former Chief Minister, once described the Cooum river as a black spot on the fair face of Chennai.
If we remove all encroachments along the banks of Cooum river and arrest sewage inflow to the river basin, the restoration proj ect will be over by 50 per cent
THE State government on Thursday decided to establish Chennai River Authority under Deputy Chief Minister M K Stalin to clean up Cooum and other rivers in the city. The decision came after Stalin and government officials who visited Singapore recently to study its river restoration project explained the issues involved in the restoration of Cooum to Chief Minister M Karunanidhi.
Eco-restoration works to be carried out in Cooum, other watercourses of the city
S. Ramasundaram, Principal Secretary (Public Works), presenting a publication on Singapore to Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi at the Secretariat on Thursday. M.K.Stalin, Deputy Chief Minister, and K. Deenabandu, Principal Secretary to Deputy Chief Minister, are in the picture.
A clean Cooum with inland water transport facility would become a reality as efforts to expedite project implementation are on, Mayor M Subramanian said here on Wednesday.
WHO will clean River Cooum? A Project seems floundering and an Authority has been proposed. The nomenclatures are unlikely to help tackle what is rated a huge environmental concern because there are no takers for the job.
K. Lakshmi
The work will be completed by this month-end
Coming up: Poles erected along the Cooum on Langs Garden Road, Pudupet, as a prelude to the fencing work.
THE Madras High Court on Wednesday issued notices to the State Government on a public interest writ petition that sought to put the administration on the mat for releasing untreated sewage water directly or indirectly into the city's waterways. Petitioner V Ravichandran, founder-chairman of an NGO, Cit izens Guardians, alleged that the government was not implementing the Chennai City River Conservation Project in its letter and spirit. A vacation bench comprising justices G Rajasuria and M Sathyanarayanan ordered notice to the authorities concerned, returnable in four weeks.
