Listing of GCC wards covering greater Mylapore area
Here is a listing of Chennai Corporation designated wards which cover the greater Mylapore zone – from Alwarpet to Dr R K Salai, from San Thome to R A Puram. …
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Main sewer pipeline being replaced across Adyar river. It carries Mylapore’s sewage.
Metrowater has begun work to replace the worn-out pipes that carries sewage from the Mylapore side of the city to a station in Taramani. The main civil work is being …
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Parks open to the public all over again
Parks are now open to the public since the pandemic time regulations have bene eased. Walkers were back in good numbers at the popular Nageswara Rao Park in Luz this …
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Re-developing old state-built housing blocks in Mylapore: encroachers are big and accommodating all is posing challenges
How do you allot housing to a community where over 50% residing in campuses of state-built tenements have encroached on pathways and spaces in these campuses and are now promised …
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R. A. Puram Post Office moves to new address on R. K. Mutt Road
The R. A. Puram Post Office, once located at the corner of R. K. Mutt near the MTC’s Mandaveli bus terminus has now opened at a new address on R. …
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Thiruvalluvarpet badly seeks permanent solution to its monsoon flooding problem
A civic-conscious group residing in Thiruvalluvarpet is asking Mylapore’s MLA Dha Velu to study the area’s serious water-logging problem and the studies it has done to address this issue so …
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Traffic diversions off Marina on four mornings
This is an alert for all those who use the Marina beach road, that is Kamaraj Salai. Police have said that due to the Republic Day rehearsals and R-Day parade …
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Civic body issues tender to build modern fish market off Marina. Hawkers have expressed reservations.
Chennai Corporation has put out a tender for the proposed modern fish hawkers market on Marina Loop Road. The value for this work is Rs.7,97,70,373. The superintending engineer of GCC’s …
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Metrowater attending to sewer pipe burst on Mylapore’s Solaiappan Street
Metrowater officials say that sewage began leaking out from its pipe running on Solaiappan Street in Mylapore and hence they had to excavate the road and start work to set …
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Street alongside Sri Kapali Temple being relaid
In the second half of last year, there had been plans to re develop the area on Kumara Gurunathan Street adjacent to the Sri Kapaleeswarar Temple which the temple owns. …
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MLA lists 20 areas which needs drains. Says he is asking GCC to consider his suggestions.
Mylapore MLA Dha. Velu says that he and his team has identified at least 20 places in the Mylapore zone which need proper storm water drains (SWDs). These are areas …
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‘Tap the groundwater and stop using Metrowater’; expert’s advice to residents who find their campus soggy
Top of this week, a resident of D’Silva Road called up rainwater harvesting expert Shekar Raghavan of the Rain Centre to discuss a recurring problem the monsoon has created. The …
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