Widening of Chennai harbour road: Houses demolished
Posted on: 07/Oct/2015 10:33:10 AM
Since there was frequent traffic congestion in the Chennai Ennore Harbour link roads, it was decided to widen the roads. Hence the Tamil Nadu Government took control of the houses in Cherian Nagar. Those of who have lost their houses have been provided with new houses by Tamil Nadu Housing Board. On Monday, houses of nearly 100 families of Cherian Nagar on the Ennore Expressway in north Chennai were pulled down by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) and the Chennai Corporation. Together, they cleared 3,500 square metres of land to make way for widening the road that runs alongside Bay of Bengal.
The expressway is part of the Rs. 600-crore Ennore-Manali Road Improvement Project in which four roads including Manali Oil Refinery Road, Tiruvottiyur-Ponneri-Panchetti Road and the northern sector of Inner Ring Road are being widened to help improve connectivity to Chennai and Ennore ports.
