As the petrol price trends to increase, the minimum fare for auto being collected now is Rs. 80. This has subjected the public to some more severe hardship. Many of them prefer to travel by MTC buses waiting in the bus stops.
The price of diesel is on the rise now and this is creating many problems. This increase in the fuel prices has forced many transport corporations in the state of Tamil Nadu to cut the bus services.
The state minister for transport, Vijayabhaskar has announced that the transport corporations will operate 22,000 special buses for Deepavali festival.
Under the phase2 Chennai airport modernisation programme, a new terminal with parking bays for aircraft and multilevel parking space for cars would be set up at a cost of amount of Rs 2500 crore.
Getting information about the arrival of MTC buses has been an issue for the commuters in Chennai. Now these commuters in Chennai city would be delighted.
The new vehicle entering rules of the Chennai Airport can impose extra charges for people hiring a cab for their travel in and out to reach the terminals.
A total of 45,000 including the two areas that were added to the corporation limits and five other on the fringes gets the water pipeline and sewage system.
Getting continuous and uninterrupted drinking water supply is very important. The news now is additional pipelines are being laid at three places namely Velachery, Madipakkam and Keelkattalai in the Chennai city.
The latest news is to teach the students belonging to 320 government schools about the sustainable management of plastic as well as other wastes, state government has tied up with a private educational research organisation
Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (TANGEDCO) is in the initial phase of replacing the overhanging electric cables with underground cable network in all of the extended areas of Chennai Corporation.
The Centre for Science and Environment recently conducted a study and according to the study Chennai was ranked second to Delhi based on the emissions of heat trapping carbon dioxide.
Recently in a week of time there were 2 cases of deaths due to swine flu and this shocked many. The news that has come out now is directorate of public health has intensified fever surveillance in the state of Tamil Nadu.
District collectors of Salem, Nagapattinam, Tiruvarur, Cuddalore & Pudukkottai officially declared holiday today (Thursday, 4th October) for all schools due to incessant heavy rains.
