Cooum to be cleaned, smart traffic system for Chennai

[V.Balasubramani]

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Pranams

I came to Chennai in 1972 and since then used to cross this river more frequently and at every time, I cross, had to experience the stinking awful smell. I used to wonder why the measures taken right from the period of British and the subsequent Governments which came to power to restore the river have failed and resulted in vain. The condition of the river is deteriorating day by day despite the implementation of various schemes and spending several crores on restoration.

It is an important but highly polluted river running inside Chennai city emanating owful smell.

Hope the initiative of the present Government will certainly yield better result.

I would like to share extract of news item published in ‘News Today’

[h=1]Cooum to be cleaned, smart traffic system for Chennai[/h]M Bhaskar Sai Thursday, 13 February 2014

Chennai: In a major initiative, the Tamil Nadu government will launch the Cooum River Restoration Project involving a total cost of Rs 3,833.62 crore, including Rs 2,077.29 crore for relief and rehabilitation of the affected families.
Presenting the budget for the year 2014-'15 in the State Assembly, Finance Minister O Panneerselvam said the project would be executed through the Chennai River Restoration Trust as the Nodal Agency.

Announcing allocation of Rs 500 crore in the budget for the year 2014-15, he said this massive project would be implemented in a time line of five years.

He said the rising population and fast expanding infrastructure exerted a huge pressure on the city environment. 'As part of the restoration of rivers in Chennai, work on the plugging of 179 sewage outfalls out of the identified 337 outfalls at a cost of Rs 150 crore has commenced and will be completed by 2015', he added.

Panneerselvam said plugging the remaining 158 outfalls at a cost of Rs 163 crore would commence during the current fiscal.

Not just Cooum, but the other rivers in the State would also get benefitted, as the government has allocated Rs 119.98 crore to continue the implementation of the intra-State river linkage projects. A sum of Rs 3,669,79 crore has been allocated in the budget estimates 2014-15 for the irrigation sector.


Regards

Source: Cooum to be cleaned, smart traffic system for Chennai | News Today

 

[krish44]

cleaning rivers is the usual pastime of politicians and is source of big money for them . yamuna,ganga have been cleaned like this and you see their state today . no different from what they were decade back.one govt wanted to have boating in coovum. take all these schemes with a pinch of salt or laugh it off as jokes on gullible

 

[prasad1]

cleaning rivers is the usual pastime of politicians and is source of big money for them . yamuna,ganga have been cleaned like this and you see their state today . no different from what they were decade back.one govt wanted to have boating in coovum. take all these schemes with a pinch of salt or laugh it off as jokes on gullible

You are right, but is there a solution? Is is man made disaster? Is it a natural phenomenon like the stagnant water creating the stink?

 

[V.Balasubramani]

You are right, but is there a solution? Is is man made disaster? Is it a natural phenomenon like the stagnant water creating the stink?

Sir,

It is man made. Major causes for pollution of this river are reported to be

1. Unauthorized settlements/slum along the river banks and its flood plains,
2. In flow of untreated waste water, sewage inflow, municipal and industrial sullage and
3. Unauthorized and indiscriminate dumping of solid waste

‘The Hindu’dated:14.02.2014 reports….

The detailed project report (DPR) for the Cooum river restoration project is expected to be ready this month-end. In a bid to clean up the city’s rivers, work to plug 179 sewage outfalls will be completed next year. The scheme to plug 158 more outfalls at a cost of Rs. 163 crore will start in the ensuing fiscal.

Meanwhile,Chennai River Restoration Trust has called for a public consultation meeting on Saturday to facilitate residents to provide suggestions on the restoration of water bodies in Zamin Pallavaram, Kilkattalai and Pallikaranai Narayanapuram.
The meeting will be held in Anandha Thirumana Maligai, GST Road, Chromepet,from 10am.


Read more..http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities...storation-by-this-monthend/article5686006.ece

 

[ashwin_ash]

<again, no personal insults. sort it out in private. If not, stop posting personal insults or avoid "discussing" with the member concerned. It can get too difficult to monitor and police a certain set of members and not to mention frustrating to keep saying the same thing. Makes me think if the member(s) are ignorant or do not want to abide by the rules - Praveen>

 

[kunjuppu]

Sir,

It is man made. Major causes for pollution of this river are reported to be

1. Unauthorized settlements/slum along the river banks and its flood plains,
2. In flow of untreated waste water, sewage inflow, municipal and industrial sullage and
3. Unauthorized and indiscriminate dumping of solid waste

‘The Hindu’dated:14.02.2014 reports….

The detailed project report (DPR) for the Cooum river restoration project is expected to be ready this month-end. In a bid to clean up the city’s rivers, work to plug 179 sewage outfalls will be completed next year. The scheme to plug 158 more outfalls at a cost of Rs. 163 crore will start in the ensuing fiscal.

Meanwhile,Chennai River Restoration Trust has called for a public consultation meeting on Saturday to facilitate residents to provide suggestions on the restoration of water bodies in Zamin Pallavaram, Kilkattalai and Pallikaranai Narayanapuram.
The meeting will be held in Anandha Thirumana Maligai, GST Road, Chromepet,from 10am.


Read more..DPR for Cooum restoration by this month-end - The Hindu

pallikaranai, anybody going past there, can see it is a dump for wastes now. on top of that, i can building development there very soon, as i think, one cannot have a marsh land right in the middle of an area full of colleges and offices. right? because marsh lates inevitably means mosquitoes and insects. the good citizens will ensure that mosquitos are sprayed and all the insects finished off with insecticides.

the death of cooum or buckingham canal, is one of neglect of post independence politicians. also we have large scale migration from the villages. these people are desperate. one only has to read their conditions and they occupy any little piece of land to put up a thatched roof. kicking them out is not a humane solution, i think.

one can only hope, that with increased prosperity, all the blight will gradually disappear. maybe another 100 years? i dont know.

 

[CHANDRU1849]

cleaning rivers is the usual pastime of politicians and is source of big money for them . yamuna,ganga have been cleaned like this and you see their state today . no different from what they were decade back.one govt wanted to have boating in coovum. take all these schemes with a pinch of salt or laugh it off as jokes on gullible

In the 70s, the then Government initiated the same thing. Everybody knows the outcome. After four decades, once again cooum is in the center stage. Well done.

 

[ashwin_ash]

<again, no personal insults. sort it out in private. If not, stop posting personal insults or avoid "discussing" with the member concerned. It can get too difficult to monitor and police a certain set of members and not to mention frustrating to keep saying the same thing. Makes me think if the member(s) are ignorant or do not want to abide by the rules - Praveen>

I understand your concerns, Praveen. I may have over reacted, but the provocation was in the form of highly inappropriate emails to my personal email ID (not even sure how he obtained it) by the person concerned.

I'll tone down, hope the other person also forgives and forgets. Reporting all posts of mine, and chastizing me using the worst language possible in my personal email is distressing.

 

[kunjuppu]

I understand your concerns, Praveen. I may have over reacted, but the provocation was in the form of highly inappropriate emails to my personal email ID (not even sure how he obtained it) by the person concerned.

I'll tone down, hope the other person also forgives and forgets. Reporting all posts of mine, and chastizing me using the worst language possible in my personal email is distressing.

i am with you here ash.

i have also had annoying behaviour by some members, who used to 'follow' my posts and make desparaging remarks against me personally. somehow these were unable to differentiate between the person and the message.

i did complain to praveen, but this was a few years ago. water under the bridge. life is short. so moved on.

what i find here, like politics, there are no permanent friends. depending on the issue, folks like or unlike. that is ok. but sometimes, they step out of the decorum, and hit personally. it happened to nara, where repeated pleas from him, for civilized behavior went unanswered. in the end, he was ended up chasitized, and he left. i think it is a shame.

this is what i think.

 

[prasad1]

the provocation was in the form of highly inappropriate emails to my personal email ID (not even sure how he obtained it) by the person concerned.

Lol Honestly I do not have your email id. If I sent you an insulting email I would post it for others to read it. Why insult in private. Any way I have no intention of responding to individuals, I respond to post in this site.

 

[ashwin_ash]

i am with you here ash.

i have also had annoying behaviour by some members, who used to 'follow' my posts and make desparaging remarks against me personally. somehow these were unable to differentiate between the person and the message.

i did complain to praveen, but this was a few years ago. water under the bridge. life is short. so moved on.

what i find here, like politics, there are no permanent friends. depending on the issue, folks like or unlike. that is ok. but sometimes, they step out of the decorum, and hit personally. it happened to nara, where repeated pleas from him, for civilized behavior went unanswered. in the end, he was ended up chasitized, and he left. i think it is a shame.

this is what i think.

Nara lent sanity, rationality, and balance to a forum where people sometimes tend to act holier-than-thou. Do you really believe that all those who vilified Nara are epitomes of 'brahmanhood' and chastity? For all you know, they might be enjoying their steaks, grilled rare, while snickering at Nara's plight.

What is even more frightening is the tendency to hide behind the cover of this forum to launch personal attacks against perceived adversaries. To all those who resort to such subterfuge, I only have this to say- meet the adversary face-to-face (in person, or skype?) and tackle issues head on. 'Brahmins' can also rise above cowardice! They, however, prefer to take cover and resort to guerilla attacks.

 

[praveen]

Thank you Ashwin.

While i do not read all the topics, i do go through a few from time to time (which is every 3 to 4 hours during day time IST). So there are things that i notice and edit out. Not necessarily that they have to be reported. At times i have let a few reported posts remain as they are part of a discussion or they did not need an edit.

Nevertheless, it is never against one member vs another. I am very sure it is just in the heat of discussions that things go a bit out of hand otherwise the members have no intention to get on someone's nerve

have a great weekend.