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Chennai Buzz: Metro Phase I | Krishna water for Chennai | New app to trace stolen mobile phones… and more

February 9, 2019 News Desk

Which are the stations in the final stretch of Phase I of Metro? What steps are being taken to tackle the water crisis in the city? Where will 2000 homeless families be rehabilitated by TNSCB? And why should you be more hopeful about getting your stolen mobile back? All this and more in our news recap this week.

Civic

11 years of hollow promises later, Nochi Nagar residents evicted on ‘verbal’ notice

August 7, 2018 Laasya Shekhar

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.

Governance

7600 families, one PDS centre: How resettled slum dwellers buy rations in Perumbakkam

April 2, 2018 Laasya Shekhar

Carpenters, electricians, domestic workers — for many residents at the Ezhil Nagar resettlement, getting their quota under the PDS means multiple visits, and hence days of leave from work that they can ill afford. Even then, supplies are not guaranteed.

Education

RTE violations rampant in Perumbakkam primary school for slum evictees

March 7, 2018 Laasya Shekhar

No playground, no fire exits, no proper washrooms and sometimes, no teachers either. That’s how kids from families in the Perumbakkam resettlement colony study, in a primary school operating from residential flats.

Governance

Redeveloping Chennai slums without eviction: What are we missing?

January 4, 2018 Bhavani Prabhakar

The benefits of in situ slum redevelopment over eviction and relocation are well-established, but projects underway in the city expose areas that call for more attention.

Governance

Hundreds stare at uncertain future as Thideer Nagar slum evicted

November 29, 2017 Kalyani S

The ongoing eviction drive at the Thideer Nagar slum and their rehabilitation in far-off Perumbakkam creates grave difficulty for slum residents, who work in the neighbourhood and send their children to school here.

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