CHENNAI, Tamil Nadu: The property tax collection by the Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) for the…
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Nivar cyclone closing in on Tamil Nadu and Puducherry
CHENNAI: Cyclone Nivar, which emerged over southwest Bay of Bengal, now lays about 380 kilometres…
Chennai swamped in water due to negligence
NEW DELHI: Over the last couple of days Chennai witnessed major water logging and disruption…
Failing of A City System
Incessant rains over a couple of weeks inundated one of the major cities of India-Chennai. The disaster tells the story of the ability of urban infrastructure systems in Indian cities to handle natural calamities. The situation would not have been very different in any other city in a similar situation since the state of infrastructure and modus operandi of municipal corporations are not very different. Indian cities need to mull over their priorities and augment the pace of building an efficient city system that takes into consideration natural disasters, especially in these times when the threat of climate change induced calamities is looming large