These workers toil at night to keep the neighbourhood streets clean
Indrani has been on a civic worker for the last nine years. Over the last six months or so, she has been making the long trip from Tondiarpet in North …
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Mylapore crematorium: new facility being set up but a few other key issues also need attention
For over four weeks the Mylapore crematorium’s facility was dead: it had broken down. So cremation was stopped. It needed an urgent order after the new Commissioner of GCC took …
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Nagalingam flowers bloom in Nageswara Rao Park. Maintained by Sundaram Finance, workers are at their tasks here every day
On a very hot Tuesday morning, 10 service personnel are sweating it out, clearing the constantly-falling leaves at the Sundaram Finance-maintained Nageswara Rao Park. Service personnel arrive early, at5.30am and …
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Pre-fab hawker stalls ordered for Marina by Chennai Corporation stored in the open in playground
Tens of dozens of prefabricated hawker stalls which were meant for use on the Marina in a new plan that was debated and planned before the current wave of the …
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Mass civic cleaning in Kesava Perumal Puram held
The Mylapore MLA’s office sent a note today saying that a mass street cleaning campaign was undertaken today at Kesava Perumal Puram this morning. Lots of civic workers, mini vans …
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Mylapore crematorium with new facility may open only after May 31
The. crematorium in Mylapore will be functional only after May 31. It awaits new equipment and accessories from a Coimbatore supplier now and setting up the new facility will take …
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MLA initiates drive to clear mounds of waste in three congested colonies
Unseen to the outside, many residents of congested colonies of Mylapore have been living alongside huge mounds of trash generated by the community, cleared once in a while and sources …
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In lockdown time, this group of civic workers turn veggie waste into manure in Mandaveli. Buy it.
It is noontime of lockdown hours on Friday. But it does not apply to these four people working under a shed alongside the MRTS rail station of Mandaveli. and at …
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Orderly distribution of ‘Covid-aid’ cash at ration stores
There is order at local ration shops where the state-ordered Covid aid cash is being to ration card holders. This is because the tokens given in advance for this purpose …
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Teams of workers clearing mounds of waste in Nochi Nagar
Huge mounds of waste in the open spaces between residential blocks in Nochi Nagar, off Marina’s Loop Road are now being cleared by teams of Urbaser Sumeet, the agency which …
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Mandaveli cemetery meant for Christians does not have much space left for burials
On Friday, since 9 a.m. Father Marshall, a junior Catholic priest now assigned to a church in R. A. Puram oversaw the burial of 16 bodies at a public cemetery …
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Mylapore crematorium has not been in use for over four weeks. New facility may be ready only end June.
For some four weeks now, the gas-fired crematorium in Mylapore has been out of service because of a technical breakdown. So it has not been of use to people who …
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