TNSCB Citizen Matters, Chennai

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

RTE violations rampant in Perumbakkam primary school for slum evictees

Redeveloping Chennai slums without eviction: What are we missing?

Hundreds stare at uncertain future as Thideer Nagar slum evicted