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Work on reconstructing culverts moves at a snail’s pace
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Residents are forced to take detours along badly laid roads to reach their destinations
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Work on the construction a culvert at Thillai Nagar First Cross in Tiruchi remains suspended for months, inconveniencing the public. | Photo Credit: Moorthy M
Residents are forced to take detours along badly laid roads to reach their destinations
The Tiruchi Corporation has been reconstructing culverts on Thillai Nagar main road for smooth flow of drainage. The work, which began nearly seven months ago at some sites is yet to be completed, inconveniencing road users, residents complain.
By Soumyadip Chattopadhyay, Arjun Kumar
Twenty-first Century India is urbanizing at a massive scale. The country is expected to house half of its population in urban areas by the year 2040. Cities, especially the larger ones, have been placed at the centre of the economic growth strategies. However, the increasing pace of urbanisation in India has not been matched by adequate planning, governance and infrastructure development. The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have further exposed the shortcomings of Indian cities in addressing urban densification and inadequate provision of urban basic services including drinking water and sanitation.
This pandemic has affected the urban poor more than anyone else. The engines of our economic growth have been derailed due to massive disruption in economic and related activities inflicted by this pandemic. Given the predominance of informal production and labour relations in the Indian cities, a cessation of all economic activity is bound to h
Chennai Corporation works out plan to revive Mambalam Canal
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December 28, 2020 02:46 IST
The waterway will not only be a sewage-free flood-carrier, but will also be turned into an urban landscape with pedestrian pathways and parks
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The waterway will not only be a sewage-free flood-carrier, but will also be turned into an urban landscape with pedestrian pathways and parks
Once a rainwater carrier snaking through the heart of the city for nearly 6 km, the Mambalam Canal has become a sewage carrier over the years.
The condition of the canal renders the task of desilting hard. The civic body now plans to spend over ₹10 crore on every kilometre to revive it.