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CHENNAI: The Greater Chennai Corporation has repaired 252 out of 285 roads in Madipakkam that were dug up by Chennai Metropolitan and Sewerage Supply Board.Out of the 55.3 km of road stretch dug up, 16.4 km of roads have been fixed so far, said city corporation commissioner Dr J Radhakrishnan, who on Wednesday returned for inspections after being down with dengue.He said 106 roads got a blacktopping...

CHENNAI: A total of 190 tonne of waste was collected by the Greater Chennai Corporation during the weekend after immersion of Ganesha statues by devotees. Among the waste collected, 60% was food, 4.5% was plastic, 6.3% flowers and the remaining were mixed waste.According to a statement, the GCC's garbage collection contractor Urbaser Sumeet deployed 220 men to clean up the beaches around Foreshore...

Handed over a Rs 150-crore bio-mining project tender on a platter, just a few days before the assembly election in 2021, one ‘communications’ firm and a ‘precisions’ company are unable to process the dump and have failed to come anywhere close to the target. This, in turn, has critically hit the Greater Chennai Corporation’s Rs 50 crore plans to have an eco-park in the cleared part of the...