Residents of Chennai’s Velachery get together to ‘green’ their locality
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April 23, 2021 16:42 IST
Residents associations in collaboration with NGOs are planting saplings in the area and plan to create a Miyawaki forest
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Residents associations in collaboration with NGOs are planting saplings in the area and plan to create a Miyawaki forest
Residents of Velachery and surrounding areas, along with a few NGOs have come together to develop a ‘Green Velachery’.
On Thursday, on the occasion of Earth Day, they planted more than 150 saplings across the locality including a median garden on the road linking Taramani - Perungudi and Velachery MRTS stations.
Velachery residents’ wait for a playground at Bethel Avenue continues
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It is close to five years since Greater Chennai Corporation sanctioned a piece of open space reservation land at Bethel Avenue in VGP Selva Nagar in Velachery for developing it into a playground.
However, the facility is not yet ready, except for a compound wall. “In fact, this piece of OSR land was originally planned for a park. As there is a good number of parks in Velachery, we felt the need for a playground. Hence, in 2017 we gave a petition to GCC requesting it develop its OSR land into a playground instead of a park. GCC officials also agreed to our request and they formally sanctioned it. We also asked for facilities like washrooms, provision of drinking water, lights, cement benches and a walkway. We insisted that we did not want any court for any particular sport. It should be a playground where anybody can play any game. Because, there is already a GCC facilit
As many as 900 people have received COVID-19 vaccination through special camps organised by the Salem Corporation here on Sunday.The Corporation formed special teams to conduct the vaccination camps.
No water supply
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AAA Drinking water supply will remain suspended in the following areas in the city on Friday due to extension and joining works near Kondayampettai owing to road widening work on the Tiruchi-Chennai Bypass Road: Viragupettai, Mahalakshmi Nagar, Malaikovil Nehruji Nagar, Ariyamangalam Ukkadai, Ariyamangalam, Jaganathapuram, Malaiyappa Nagar, Rail Nagar, Senthaneerpuram, Sangiliandapuram, Military Colony, Vivekananda Nagar, J.K.Nagar, Mela Kalkandarkottai, Ponneripuram, Kallukuzhi, Ponmalaipatti, Central Prison, Subramaniapuram, Airport, Kamaraj Nagar, Sembattu, Khaja Nagar, Khajamalai, K.K.Nagar, Thendral Nagar, Anand Nagar, Sathyavani Muthu Nagar, Ayyappa Nagar, Woraiyur, Mangala Nagar, Fathima Nagar, Siva Nagar, Rainbow Nagar, Selva Nagar, Anandam Nagar, Bharathi Nagar, Puthur, Edamalaipattipudur, K.Sathanur, Anbu Nagar, Krishnamurthy Nagar, Thondaiman Nagar and Crawford.