For 11 years, tsunami survivors here had been living in temporary shelters, in sorry conditions. Now even those have been destroyed, supposedly to make way for houses to be built for them. But TNSCB hardly gave them any notice and they have nowhere to go.
23 years after Phase-1 between Chennai Beach and Mylapore was inaugurated in 1995, construction over a 1.5-km stretch on the Inner Ring Road remains suspended, mired in litigation.
