Chennai’s one and only toll-free highway, Outer Ring Road (ORR), which is also the city’s most sophisticated stretch, all this while, is soon going to get not one but four toll plazas.
Author: S Ben Raja
For residents of Sai Ganesh Apartments in First Main Road, Chrompet, civic problems are just a way of life. Right from litter thrown at random places, to living in surroundings plagued with rodents and other pests, their issues are one too many.
Proving yet again that age is no bar when it comes to one’s passion, S Viswanathan, a resident of Vivekananda Street, Gandhi Nagar, Chrompet, is continuing to make waves in photography, at 65.
Puzhuthivakkam lake’s restoration will be complete within a month’s time and the waterbody will get better amenities than that of Karthikeyapuram lake, state Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC)’s Smart City Department officials.
“The phase one extension project that links Washermanpet with Tiruvottiyur and Wimco Nagar will be open for public by June 2020. Not only that, all the pending safety works in this last line of phase one between AG-DMS and Washermanpet stations will be completed at the earliest,” said Commissioner of Metro Railway Safety (CMRS) – Bengaluru circle K A Manoharan.
Achieving a new milestone in the history of the neighbourhood, Pammal Municipality has so far removed 21,200 cubic metres of garbage from the dump-yard here, thereby retaining its ‘zero waste’ tag.
The final inspection of Chennai Metro Rail Ltd’s (CMRL’s) 10-km stretch between AG-DMS and Washermanpet stations under phase one project will take place 19 and 20 January.
Employed women aged between 18 and 40, holding a valid driving licence, and working under the limits of Chennai Corporation for an annual income less than Rs 2.5 lakh, can visit the nearest Corporation zonal office, as authorities have started issuing applications to avail subsidy for Amma Two Wheeler Scheme for the financial year 2018-19. The filled-up applications will be accepted till 21 January either in person or by post by the respective Corporation zonal office.
“Buses heading south from Koyambedu bus terminus during Pongal holidays will not pass through Maduravoyal bypass but, instead, take the Outer Ring Road. So, passengers at Perungalathur have to got to Urapakkam bus stand to catch their buses,” said Transport Minister M R Vijayabhaskar.