Civic body plans big for Chennai

The Council meeting of the Chennai Corporation on Tuesday discussed a wide range of issues and projects, which, if implemented in a proper way, would make the city a model for other Corporations.

The civic body announced that the ban on plastics on the Marina Beach, as announced in its budget for this fiscal, would come into force from 15 August.
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Speaking to reporters, Mayor M Subramanian said that beach beautification work was almost over and the civil works completed. The greening work is under way.

The Council also adopted a resolution requesting the Collector to transfer a portion of government land on Queen Mary’s College campus for setting up a bus bay and a splay at the junction of Dr Radhakrishnan Salai and Kamarajar Salai.

He said that the Corporation planned to float tenders calling for artists to paint walls of government property on Kamarajar Salai and Anna Salai, where it had banned posters and banners.

Stating that digital banners could be put up with the permission of the civic body and police for three days before and two days after any function, the Mayor said if the persons concerned did not remove the banners on their own, the Corporation and police would take steps to do so.

The civic body would issue a show cause notice to private conservancy agency Neel Metal Fanalca (NMF), asking it why its contract should not be terminated, following complaints about the performance of the agency, the Mayor said.
The Council meeting approved the cost estimates for construction of two bridges over the Otteri Nullah and one across the Captain Cotton Canal.

The bridge over the Nullah at Narasimha Nagar - M S Nagar (Zone 3) will come up at an estimated cost of Rs.2.37 crore, while the facility in Zone 5, ward 67 linking A-Block and B-Block will cost Rs.2.52 crore.The proposed facility across the Captain Cotton Canal (Zones 1 and 3) will connect Krishnamurthi Nagar and M K B Nagar, at an estimated cost of Rs.3.97 crore.

On the issue of traffic pile ups at the junction of Harrington Road and Spurtank Road, Subramanian said that the civic body would consider construction of a flyover at the junction. The proposed bridge would come up in an east-north alignment.

-source from NEWS TODAY