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Solid Waste Management – Corporation of Chennai 2

Apr

13

2013

A RTI has been filed to get insights into various phases of Chennai’s Solid Waste Management process from Source Collection to Dumping. Its been more than a month and Appeal has been filed. Then again no response from the PIO / FAA. Then we filed the Second Appeal and Complaint on the PIO / FAA ...

Road Blockade by Local Rowdies 3

Mar

12

2013

A Road in Ashok Nagar was completely blocked by Mechanic Shop owners and the road was utilised as Mechanical Shop Backyard by them. Since last year (July, 2012) we reported the situation several times (Post 1, Post 2) in Facebook CCTP Page, but there were no proper response. By the last week of Febraury, 2013 two ...

Restoration of Adyar and Cooum Rivers Part 3 1

Feb

17

2013

Complaints have been filed to concerned departments on February 5th, 2013 to clean up the river and restore it to its former clean state. All the problems faced by the river and the authorities responsible to fix them were briefly summarised in the complaint. Also the photos were attached with the complaint and the problems ...

Restoration of Adyar and Cooum Rivers Part 2 1

Feb

16

2013

8 RTI Applications have been filed in the month of February to the following Departments, soughting information regarding the authorities responsible for maintenance of the rivers, authorities responsible to take care of each and every problems faced by the rivers, budget allocated for the river maintenance, their plan with the river and many more. The ...

Restoration of Adyar and Cooum Rivers Part 1 2

Feb

15

2013

240 Photos were snapped in the month of January along the stretches of Adyar and Cooum rivers. 154 photos in Adyar river and 86 in Cooum river. All photos are geo-tagged in order to identify their latitude and longitude. Each and every photo shows some clear violation of rules, varying from Untreated Sewage Effluent flowing ...

Restoration of Adyar and Cooum Rivers – Main 21

Feb

10

2013

Adyar and Cooum rivers (Chennai, India) were once the symbol of our glory and the backbone of our waterways, but now they have been turned into a symbol of disgrace with exceeding amount of untreated toxic sewage and human waste getting stagnated in river and causing mosquito menace, which leads to spread of vector borne ...

DELAYED Road Construction @ Pallikaranai

Jan

10

2013

A regular scenario that one can see anywhere in India. Construction work of a Road or Bridge is started, then put on hold for years(literally) for unknown reasons Same is the case with certain Roads in Ward No. 189, Pallikaranai, Chennai, where the construction work started in the year 2011 and till (2013) not completed. A ...

Street Lamps @ Pallikaranai 3

Jan

10

2013

We liked to test the RTI to see how it works, what could be done with RTI. So filed one for the sake of testing it with questions on Street Lamps in Ward No: 189 (Pallikaranai, Chennai). We never posed any critical questions, rather very normal questions which is not of much use, like How much fund ...