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Journalist @TOIChennai | ex @citizenmatters | Follow for urban, environment, civic, water supply and sewerage news, views and analyses | Views are personal

Chennai, India

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2 months

"I am a free bird in water. I can move my entire body inside water, thanks to zero gravity. But my wheelchair keeps me caged on land." Geetha Kannan (42) is a wheelchaired person who LOVES swimming independently. Look at her swimming in the Nehru Stadium pool (video 1). She

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Not Ooty or Kodaikanal. This is Namma #Chennai 's Semmozhi Poonga getting ready for the very first live-flower show on Feb 10 by horticulture dept of #TNGovt . It will be a ticketed event with a Rs20+ cost. 12 lakh flowers, 16 species from different TN districts have come to

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Chennai is not pedestrian-friendly 🧵 (1/n)

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IIT-M finds 'forever chemicals' groundwater in and around Perungudi dumpyard, Chembarambakkam lake and its treated water, Adyar river and Buckingham canal in #Chennai . These chemicals are groups of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), which can cause liver

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#Elections2024 | Saraswathy S, 85, resident of Kottivakkam, cast her vote in Nellai Nadar School. She came with her son. "I came to vote because this democracy must remain a democracy no matter what," she said. "It can't go back to a rule like the British era where people don't

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In the wake of an illegal 120x120 feet hoarding collapsing and killing 16 people in #Mumbai , @chennaicorp has started removing unauthorised hoardings. Currently, GCC has removed 460 unauthorised hoardings totally, among which 250 have been removed along with its structure, owing

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🚨 BREAKING | The Rottweilers are on the way to Madurai, taken by their owner Pugalendhi. These two dogs ripped the scalp of a five-year-old child in a park in Thousand Lights on Saturday. @chennaicorp planned to take it to an animal shelter today morning. But when owners

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Updates from the Rottweiler-bite case. Two unleashed, unlicensed, unneutered Rottweilers bit a 5yo kid on Sun. Yesterday, I met the father and grandfather of Suraksha (5) outside Apollo Children's Hospital, Thousand Lights. He said that the owners did not leash the dog. (1/n)

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People who use water from the Nemmeli desalination plant say that the water is turbid with high TDS, and completely impotable. See the difference between tap water (left) and mineral water (right). 1/n

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Do you think #Chennai is facing a population explosion of pigeons? Yes. You are right. 1/

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1 year

Time to normalise and romanticise public transport in Chennai!

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A sewage tanker is releasing untreated sewage from Mogappair bridge into Cooum in broad daylight this morning at 11.30am. CRRT has spent Rs735 crore to restore Cooum since 2015, @CHN_Metro_Water has spent Rs193.25 crore to plug 37 out of sewage inlets as of last year. The

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The free medical health camps in Chennai - Good work by the health department, @chennaicorp . I was walking near a mobile camp in Velachery (near the lake) and a doctor called me. "You must have gone out in the rain and must have exposed yourself to infections. Drink hot water

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POV of a Chennai reporter: Armed up with a hat, sunscreen and a two-litre water bottle, ground reporters like me try to beat the heat while bringing you insightful long-form stories. But, can you really beat the heat in Chennai? Well, no. (1/n)

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Updates from the Rottweiler-bite case. Two unleashed, unlicensed, unneutered Rottweilers bit a 5yo kid on Sun. Yesterday, I met the father and grandfather of Suraksha (5) outside Apollo Children's Hospital, Thousand Lights. He said that the owners did not leash the dog. (1/n)

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2 months

Central Square ghosted. Pedestrians walk past the seats. @cmrlofficial , lovely seating space in granite on a busy road like EVR Periyar Salai. But what is the point? Granite gets heated up in the sun, especially with no shade. Needs: Umbrellas, trees, a free water dispenser,

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Velachery lake near Kakkan Bridge in Adambakkam, clicked on Mar 7. Look at them slowly adding debris and filling up the lake. The difference in the debris along the lake shows it (red and orange lines). Activists tell me that a few years back, the encroachment was just near the

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My dream for Buckingham Canal in #Chennai .

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Without constant noise pollution of motorized traffic, you can truly enjoy the sounds and serenity of the city!

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🚨 BREAKING | @chennaicorp issues guidelines to regulate pet movement in the parks, in the wake of the Rottweilers mauling the 5yo child in MOP Park, Thousand Lights on Sunday. 1. Securities of @chennaicorp parks will be tightened. 2. Each pet owner will be restricted to take

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Another Siberian husky bites a 9yo Ashvanth V in Alandur police quarters on Tuesday evening. (Pics 1,2) Yesterday, I spoke to him and his family and friends. He is the son of a widowed mother from Velachery, who had come to his aunt's quarters in Alandur. He and his friends were

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1 year

There have been incidents where the @chennaipolice_ have been taking clicking images of people in the city. The people have been clueless and apprehensive of this, until the police responded to a tweet that the image is for face recognition technology (FRT). (1/5)

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Somewhere on OMR between Kasturba Nagar MRTS and Indira Nagar MRTS today. This is not some random gutter. A fresh load of sewage enters Buckingham canal outside the walkway. Smells unbearable. It is a beautiful community space with a Miyawaki forest, park, skating area, but

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Tambaram corporation hides debris with cloth before chief secy's visit: A coloured cloth, generally used in local functions, decked up Chitlapakkam Main Road, when #TamilNadu chief secretary, Shiv Das Meena, went on inspection rounds in the area on Saturday. But it wasn’t a

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11 months

For whom is the footpath constructed? Pedestrians will go extinct if this is the case. Location: Sardar Patel Road, Guindy @ChennaiTraffic @chennaicorp

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Medavakkam residents have gone ahead to post postcards to @Chief_Secy_TN to save Kalleri and Chinna Eri. The lakes are dying because of constant sewage inflow, hyacinths and encroachments. (Pic 1- Kalleri, pic 2-Chinna Eri) Pic 3 - people post cards & ask govt to restore lakes+

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🧵 @chennaicorp 's encroachment-removal drives have become meaningless. This was yesterday, Ranganathan Street, T Nagar, business as usual with encroachments. But it was not so, some days back (1/n)

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11 months

CAREER UPDATE | After a wonderful year with @citizenmatters , I have joined @TOIChennai as a reporter. I will be covering issues of ECR and OMR, water and @chennaicorp .

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Cooum encroached again, this time on Greams Road. Mechanic shed has extended to the river bund, which has been fenced, saw TOI. It is the part of the river opposite Lalit Kala Academy. WRD said that they will remove the encroachment if it is not in court. The Chennai Rivers

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Remember in Nov 2023, @Udhaystalin inaugurated this 8km-health walk track in Besant Nagar, which @chennaicorp spent for? It is hardly walkable now. @Subramanian_ma visited Tokyo and was inspired by their health walk tracks that he wanted to bring them to Tamil Nadu. ₹1.4

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A 59-acre lake is missing in #Chennai - Ullagaram lake. Survey no. 90 of the lake is a mixed residential area says @CMDA_Official land use map (pic 2) against 1930s survey map (pic 1) that calls it a waterbody. Experts say, this has exacerbated flooding in Madipakkam & Velachery+

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Water hyacinths are drying up lakes faster- 2.5x more than normal evaporation, says research. Almost every lake or pond you visit in #Chennai , these invasive weeds dominate. Water resources department has no plans to remove hyacinths from the waterbodies at all during summer.

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Most of the 104 lakes that drain into the Pallikaranai marshland, that is a Ramsar site, is ridden with sewage. Case in point- (1/n)

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Case 1: Chembarambakkam lake water is treated with multiple filtration processes before water is supplied to people (pic 1). Case 2: Madambakkam lake water, which gets raw sewage, is merely chlorinated and supplied to Chitlapakkam residents (pic 2). (1/n)

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Buckingham canal was not wide enough to carry all the water from south Chennai, which led to prolonged flooding. But WRD tried widening the canal from 25m to 100m in 2014, but did not complete even 50% of it, as per 2014 CAG report. Because of this, Pallikaranai and surrounding

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#TOIIMPACT : Yesterday, the @CHN_Metro_Water & @ChennaiTraffic seized the private sewage tanker (TN 28 AE 9246) that emptied sewage from Mogappair bridge into Cooum. The tanker was caught in Nerkundram and impounded by Thirumangalam traffic police station. Rs4,500 has been levied

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A sewage tanker is releasing untreated sewage from Mogappair bridge into Cooum in broad daylight this morning at 11.30am. CRRT has spent Rs735 crore to restore Cooum since 2015, @CHN_Metro_Water has spent Rs193.25 crore to plug 37 out of sewage inlets as of last year. The

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3 months

When #Chennai surprises with a walkable footpath that is not the Marina Beach walkway. This is an unencroached, free footpath in Pattullos Road, next to Express Avenue. A sight to behold and tempting to walk on a Sunday afternoon.

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1 year

Continuing to record the plight of @chennaicorp 's conservancy workers. "These gloves last for a week or two. Not for a month. They don't even give us a spare if the gloves get torn before one month," says Kannayiram (name changed), a conservancy worker.+

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After @citizenmatters reported about the plight of conservancy workers, @chennaicorp convened a meeting to discuss the issues faced by them. 1/

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#BengaluruWaterCrisis is a wake-up call for #Chennai to not put its eggs in a single basket-surface reservoir water for most of its demand. While desalination meets 22% of a total water supply, the rest comes from rain-fed reservoirs, which is only 67% full and Veeranam lake is

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Watching a movie in PVR is LITERALLY half the price of eating a small popcorn now in #Chennai . The merger of PVR-Inox has made it into a monopoly of sorts. A movie ticket in Chennai when booked via ticketing apps costs Rs150. A small popcorn with butter and one seasoning

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Under the Vadalapani @cmrlofficial Metrorail elevated line. A perfectly good space to enforce paid street parking especially in a city with hardly enough parking spaces. But abandoned vehicles paint a dusty image in a core area in #Chennai like Vadalapani 100ft road.

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1 year

In the most inclusive city in India, #Chennai , there is a shadowban on emergency contraceptive pills.

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1 year

An honest take on Vande Bharat: Chennai to Bengaluru Vande Bharat train is good, fast and serves the purpose. But it starts at 5.50 am in Chennai. It is a headache. @GMSRailway @RailMinIndia @AshwiniVaishnaw (1/4)

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New settlements and pathway spotted inside #Chennai lakes. Medavakkam is a suburb of lakes draining into the Ramsar-tagged Pallikaranai marshland. But they are being killed by attempts at landgrab and sewage inflow, despite NGT orders in 2022 to protect the lakes. Still, the

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Remember cars floating from Purvankara apartment in Medavakkam during Michaung, due to the Anai Eri breach? (Video 3) The Water Resources Department has started course correction and begab work today to connect Medavakkam Periya Eri and Anai Eri via a cut-and-cover drain via

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If you travel by bike in the Thillai Ganga Nagar subway, the odds of you skidding and falling down is way high, because of water flowing from the ground, retaining walls and dripping from the railway track above. During rains, it becomes worse. The road is dotted with potholes

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If sewage is overflowing on your road, there is 85% chance that sanitary napkins, diapers, clothes, debris, alcohol bottles are clogging up the sewer, as per @CHN_Metro_Water data. Kodambakkam has the highest number of sewer blocks due to solid waste. Then, Teynampet. (1/n)

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1/ At 1.15am on Dec 27, Tamilselvan from Ennore called me and said that people were fleeing from their houses and because nobody was able to breathe. They suspected ammonia gas leaked in the sea near the shore. Many were rushed to hospital that night.

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The Rottweiler-attack survivor, R Suraksha (age 5) is doing fine after her plastic surgery yesterday. On Sunday, the two Rottweilers ripped her scalp. I went to Apollo Children's Hospital yesterday to check on the child and spoke to the father (see video). Doctors said she

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1 year

FROM THE FIELD: When people tell me there is no caste, class and gender impact in cities and only there in villages. (1/n)

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1 year

Major missings: Reading for pleasure. Reading without an agenda. Forgetting time and place in words. Drowning in pages.

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Check out @CHN_Metro_Water 's robotic desilters in Adyar. You can find them in Teynampet and Thiru vi ka Nagar too. I caught them today in Indira Nagar, Adyar. They have a camera and desilt in half time than a normal desilter. #chennai #TechSolutions

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And that's what true journalism looks like. @omjasvinTOI wrote about how a Tasmac outlet, barely 50m away from a @chennaicorp girls' high school in Tondiarpet, has forced the school to close its back-gate to avoid drunkards harassing the students. Now, the outlet is closed.

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Chennai's public transport is not climate resilient. Because of this, it marginalises people who solely depend on public transport. What can be done to make buses, trains and metro more climate resilient? (6/n)

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After @TOIChennai article on forever chemicals in key water sources of #Chennai , NGT has taken cognisance of forever chemicals in waterbodies in Chennai. These chemicals, as studied by IIT-M, always stay in the environment and can't be broken down. Yesterday, NGT said, "It is a

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IIT-M finds 'forever chemicals' groundwater in and around Perungudi dumpyard, Chembarambakkam lake and its treated water, Adyar river and Buckingham canal in #Chennai . These chemicals are groups of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), which can cause liver

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#Chennai has extracted 127.5% of groundwater against the national avg of 59.3% in #2023 , said @JalShaktiMin 's Central Ground Water Board's 'Dynamic Ground Water Resources Report, 2023'. The city has always over-exploited its groundwater. Taluks with most over-exploited

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Just saw how close it is to Cooum river. And, how this high rise is coming on a land that was once Grama Natham Poromboke. Refer: Madras High Court shocked over AIADMK government having assigned 3.45 acre of public land for private shopping mall -

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Baashyam Crown Residences at Koyambedu. Total 15 towers ranging between 20-30 floors and redefining Koyambedu Skyline.. #Chennai #Project 🏗️🌇

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Made my day. My family and friends used to call me kuppai journalist because I did some stories on solid waste management. Now, I am proud to be kakkoos journalist to be doing kakkoos stories 😅

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👇found a journalist who cares about real sh** 🙏

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Gone today, back tomorrow: The curious case of footpath encroachments in Chennai 1️⃣ @chennaicorp has been removing encroachments off the footpaths. 2️⃣ @citizenmatters checked whether some of those footpaths are encroachment-free 3️⃣ What did we find? (1/n)

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Alandur @chennaicorp @arivalayam councillor Brindhaa Shrri was allotted a huge office space of 400sqft in ward 160. She made it into a free, MSME-registered computer class. Many students' parents are daily wage workers. Many students said it was their first time using a computer.

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3 cattle attacks happened in Triplicane in the last 10 days. Residents do not wear slippers. Because the streets get slippery due to cow dung that is hardly cleaned. There are 275 cows in Triplicane, as per @chennaicorp data- the second highest number of cattle in Chennai.(1/n)

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Heavy crowd in front of Semmozhi Poonga to see the flower show this weekend. Many people who wanted to see the first live-flower show of #Chennai on the weekend are demanding to be let inside the park. They said that traffic caused delay when the park shut its gates. The flower

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Raw sewage being dumped in Buckingham Canal near Indira Nagar MRTS footover bridge on OMR, 10 min back. @CHN_Metro_Water has been unable to standardise private sewage tankers, though they say that they can track private sewage tankers with GPS. They also have a monitoring

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Yesterday at around 1pm, I saw Cooum river on South Cooum River Road in Pudupet fencing gate was opened (pic 1). There was free and unchecked access to the reclaimed river bund- lorries and cars started swarming in, again like old times (pic 2 & 3). A few years back, the river

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Once garbage dumping grounds-then Miyawaki forests-now garbage dumping grounds This is the story of some Miyawaki forests in Chennai. (1/n)

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The Rottweiler owners are on bail. Sources say they are sponsoring the complete treatment. They did not get the dogs licensed and they were breeding the dogs. Further, the dogs have bit chickens, another dog and a person in 2021. (3/n)

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MANUAL SCAVENGING BEFORE PREZ VISIT: Before Draupadi Murmu's visit to Madras University, the campus was getting cleaned and students witnessed the banned manual scavenging on August 4. @rashtrapatibhvn @KPonmudiMLA @CMOTamilnadu @CHN_Metro_Water

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Karuvadu/dried fishes are contaminated with lead and cadmium in Chennai, says a recent study. Reason- marine pollution due to plastics and e-waste, and using poor quality salt to cure the fishes. Consuming excess of these dried fishes can lead to cancer. (1/n)

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Underground sewerage work begins in Thoraipakkam by @CHN_Metro_Water . 👉 Wards: 193, 194, 195 👉 680 streets with 2,819 manholes 👉 1.42 lakh people to benefit 👉 Underground sewer pipeline 80.72km-long to handle 17.02MLD sewage which will go to 9 sewage pumping stations before

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In the height of religious polarisation, there is a breath of fresh air in Chennai. For around 40 years, Hindus have been serving Iftar food to Muslims during Ramzan at Walajah Big Mosque, Triplicane. They have been serving Iftar meals to around 1,200 Muslims breaking the fast

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🚨 Chief minister @mkstalin will inaugurate the much-awaited new 150 MLD desalination plant at Nemmeli on the outskirts of Chennai at 10am on Saturday, municipal administration and water supply minister @KN_NEHRU said on Monday. It is the third desalination plant in the city and

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INTERVIEW 🎤🧵 | Interviewed the #Chennai Mayor @PriyarajanDMK last week. We catch up about her goals, governance and how she juggles mayor and councillor duties, apart from other issues. @PriyarajanDMK is the councillor of Ward 74 too. @chennaicorp (1/n)

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🧵 While #Chennai has the most desalination capacity in India- 350MLD, we are still at the mercy of rain-dependent reservoirs, which are now at HALF CAPACITY. @CHN_Metro_Water must supple 1,188MLD (says @MoHUA_India norms) to 88L people, but it supplies 1,030-1,060MLD only. (1/n)

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"I wish they called me 'vaanga Manjula, ponga Manjula', instead of 'va ma, po ma'," says Manjula, a conservancy worker in Chennai. Read on more to know about their pains and struggles to gain respect, dignity and security. (1/2)

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The plight of conservancy workers in singara Chennai

Battling sexual harassment and hostile work environment, conservancy workers in Chennai continue to keep the city clean.

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1/ @CHN_Metro_Water 's sewer leaks sewage in Adyar river from Thiru vi ka bridge, I saw yesterday afternoon. (Pics 1&2) ₹412.19cr was spent by government to restore Adyar. ₹123.19cr of public money was spent by @CHN_Metro_Water to plug 39 sewage outfalls into Adyar river. The

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After more than a month of my story, today @ 5pm, CMDA Minister @PKSekarbabu , Chennai Mayor @PriyarajanDMK , Central Chennai MP @Dayanidhi_Maran will be inaugurating this "toilet" near Central Railway Station on Wall Tax Road. But a previous @chennaicorp order states that toilets

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Padmaja J

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It is smelly on Wall Tax Road. Not even 100m away from the Chennai Central Railway Station, a newly built @SwachhBharatGov toilet in Wall Tax Road stands tall, but locked, for more than five months. People exiting the station, hutments on pavement and truck drivers of parcel

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Please understand the chronology of how waterbodies disappear... - First, garbage is dumped to make the clear water surface disappear. - Then, sewage through drains and private tankers contaminate the lake. Water hyacinths grow. - Then, the entire surface looks either green

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@chennaicorp And now, the lake is well filled with garbage. Both the Govt and people failed to keep the lake sane. People dump garbage in it directly. Sewage trucks fill the lake to its brink, you will forget if its even a lake or a huge sewage pond. How inhumane is this? Can't imagine.

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Using public transport these days is looked down upon, especially if you have means. A story I worked on today is getting published on @citizenmatters #chennai at 11.30 am. This piece is close to my heart. Check out this thread in a few hours for the story! (3/n)

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A dying cow's call for an ambulance in Medavakkam went to deaf ears. The abandoned cow gave birth on Friday evening and had heavy postpartum bleeding, and died on Saturday. At 10.30pm, @Arjunsh25031819 , a resident nearby, called 1962, for an animal ambulance. "They told me they

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MANUAL SCAVENGING RAMPANT, FALL ON GOVT'S DEAF EARS | @chennaicorp and @CHN_Metro_Water will be held liable if there is manual scavenging in Chennai. LINK:

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"Bathroom illaadhadhu kastama iruku. Veyil la avlo dhooram bathroom poga nadaka mudila," said Sumathi (name changed), a conservancy worker with @chennaicorp . Many conservancy workers find it a trek to hunt for loos. "Podava katitu palagiten, epdi pant poda mudiyum?" she asked.

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Padmaja J

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Groundwater depleting in southern suburbs which have very less piped water supply. Medavakkam, which has multiple high-rises, IT companies and the city's longest flyover, is short of water in just early April. The water is at least 20m below the ground now, which used to be

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Padmaja J

1 year

When local governments of Thane, Pune and Hyderabad can ban public feeding of pigeons, experts insist @chennaicorp to follow suit. To read the entire on @citizenmatters 6/

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Chennai's pigeon problem driven by unchecked urbanisation

Pigeon population has grown due to rise in number of high-rise buildings and feeding by humans, impacting health and biodiversity.

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Also, I mostly use public transport to navigate across the city. People who use public transport feel the heat more than those who have their private two-wheelers and cars. (2/n)

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"En bodhaiye Chenda dhan," said Ashok Kumar (23) from #Chennai 's Pulianthope. ("My fix is playing the Kerala percussion Chenda"). This is a journey against drugs, alcohol and a struggle to grow out of stereotypes and stigma for a successful future. Hailing from one of the

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Y'all want people to use public transport to cut down emissions in Chennai. But it can't happen unless they can reach their destination before time. (4/4)

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This is how Buckingham Canal looks between Chepauk and Greenways Road. With debris and no space for people to access. (Pics: A Prathap, TOI Chennai). But @chennaicorp is going to make the canal front look like that near Kasturba Nagar MRTS in about a year. (1/n)

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The child's scalp has been ripped off by the dog. Rabies positivity is yet to be confirmed. Before Thursday, it will be confirmed, and a surgery is scheduled on the day. Currently, her condition: Injury over the scalp and multiple abrasions over the body. (2/n)

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More desalinated water in pipeline in Chennai, now that @mkstalin has inaugurated @CHN_Metro_Water 's 150MLD desalination plant in Nemmeli. City will be the desalination capital of India with 750MLD water coming from just desalination. 1. Minjur - 100MLD 2. Nemmeli - 100MLD 3.

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1 year

Climate change marginalises the marginalised sections more. Chennai veyil affects the people of less privileged caste, class, gender, disability. (2/n)

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CHENNAI COUNCILLOR FEEDS CONSERVANCY WORKERS | @chennaicorp 's Ward 12 Councillor @kavidmk of Kaladipet in Thiruvottiyur has been paying Rs. 1800 every day to feed conservancy workers breakfast of idly, poori, etc. Most of them come for work with empty stomachs.

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Many passengers to Chennai Central station come via @cmrlofficial metro. When metro services begin at 5 am at the starting points, it is not possible for people to travel via metro. So, they are forced to spend 300-400 bucks for cabs, which is unnecessary. (2/4)

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Which authority should take action against illegal sewage discharge by tankers? Even the govt bodies pass the responsibilities to each other. Here, I explain the rules from @MawsTamilNadu 's Septage Management Regulations and Operative Guidelines, 2023. If you come across illegal

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12 years ago, @CMDA_Official & TN transport department planned BRTS on OMR- a shuttle service with mini buses for just the IT Corridor. But it never took off. We need it now more than ever, to ease traffic and strengthen the public commute, especially during @cmrlofficial works.

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Sewage has been flowing along Besant Nagar beach promenade, which was rated the cleanest beach in the city in 2023. With around 610 encroachments in and around the beach, the sewage was seen seeping into the sand from a small drain that was meant for rainwater. @chennaicorp

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Reason I am not motivated to travel in Vande Bharat (Chennai to Bangalore). Prefer the double-decker at 7.30 am- to travel from Chennai to Bangalore. - I come in Metro to Chennai Central - Ticket price less than VB - It stops in intermediate stations in Bengaluru. (3/4)

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Remember Narayanapuram lake breaching its wall during the #CycloneMichaung in Dec 2023? And there were missing links/lack of surplus channels in the south #Chennai lakes that drain into Pallikaranai. There wasn't a way for water to go when Narayanapuram lake exceeded its

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Residents of Thirumangalam wake up to debris burning in Cooum. @chennaicorp , responsible for clearing solid waste in rivers passes the buck to CRRT. Almost Rs. 500.5 cr has been spent since 2017 for Cooum restoration, and there is no hope for the river, let alone health. (1/n)

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In Nov 2023, I wrote how BRTS can be a solution to reduce congestion in OMR. It has become one of @BJP4TamilNadu 's parliamentary election manifestos for south Chennai.

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#தென்சென்னை முக்கிய #OMR சாலையில் நெரிசலை கட்டுப்படுத்த #BRTS திட்டம் மட்டுமே ஒரு தீர்வு. பிரதமர் ஸ்ரீ @narendramodi அவர்கள் தலைமையில், அண்ணன் @annamalai_k அவர்கள் வழிகாட்டுதலில் #தென்சென்னை #OMR சாலையில் BRTS போன்ற பல்வேறு திட்டங்கள் செயல்படுத்தப்படும். #BRTS is the only

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Next time you visit a restaurant, you will be offered to buy a bottled packaged water. But is it healthy? Researchers from IIT-M, Anna University, Madras University have found that 30 popular packaged water bottles fall short of minerals needed for our body by 91%. In the

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The story of a free tuition centre which has prevented child marriage and drug addiction. "If not for Dr Ambedkar Pagutharivu Padasalai, I'd have spoiled my health- drinking & smoking with miscreants. Now, I want to be a doctor and help people," said a teenager studying there.

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After @citizenmatters reported that @chennaicorp 's conservancy workers did not get reflective jackets, #GCCBudget2023 allots Rs. 3.25 crores to give them two sets of reflective jackets. Our coverage:

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