Water bodies in North Chennai have disappeared over the last three decades to rampant commercialisation and encroachment. Read the Tamil version of our reportage on the issue here.
Areas newly inducted into the Chennai Corporation have to pay much higher property tax than those in the older, posh localities, despite pathetic infrastructure. This and other anomalies in the recent revision are raising eyebrows across the city.
Domestic and industrial waste management receives a lot of focus in discussions around cleanliness of the city, but what about the dumps created by governmental and parastatal departments? These photos call for an urgent policy to tackle this.
