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5 days ago |
timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Omjasvin M D
NewsVillivakkam eco-park to be ready by June, says GCCChennai: Having failed to meet multiple inaugural dates, including the last one in Dec 2024, the Villivakkam eco park and lake expansion project has again been delayed. The latest excuse is that at least 53 encroachers secured a stay from Madras high court over its inauguration.
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5 days ago |
timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Omjasvin M D
NewsPrime 3-km road linking Ennore Expressway with Royapuram in shamblesChennai: North Chennai commuters suffer a back-breaking experience daily to reach Parrys and Broadway, as a prime three-km stretch connecting the Ennore Expressway with Royapuram is in a shambles.
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6 days ago |
timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Omjasvin M D
TrendingChennai: They have been allotted proper stalls within the newly inaugurated Marina Loop Road market, but many fish vendors are encroaching on the facility's parking area and walking bays, making the place dirty and inaccessible. Fish vendors have taken over space Greater Chennai Corporation had set apart for parking 70 cars and for bikes. Of the 330 vendors allotted stalls inside the market, at least 90 have set up ice boxes and are squatting at the entrance.
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1 week ago |
timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Omjasvin M D
Status:clearedChennai: To address long-pending vacancies of doctors, Greater Chennai Corporation will hire 60 doctors in Urban Health and Wellness Centres launched two years ago. Councillors however recommend appoinment of doctors on a permanant basis. Chief Minister M K Stalin inaugurated 200 health and wellness centres two years ago. Set up under the union govt's Ayushman Bharat scheme, these centres are supposed to complement the existing primary health centres.
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1 week ago |
timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Omjasvin M D
Chennai: About one-third of the city's 6,000tonnes of waste will soon be transported to the suburbs in Vengadamangalam after Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) completes biomining the remaining 90acres of Perungudi dumpyard. This decision follows protests by residents of North Chennai against GCC's inital plan to transport and dispose of South Chennai's waste at the incineration plant in Kodungaiyur.
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Chennai’s MTC bus use witness a steep decline, two-wheeler users go up, MTC buses, which were used by nearly 50% of city’s population in 1970 as prime mode of commute, has reduced to just 16% in 2023. A World Bank–CUMTA study published in March shows just how far the city’s https://t.co/HLygBgFdUV
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