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Stormwater drain work in Southern parts of Chennai to start soon

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The Hindu       30.11.2020

Stormwater drain work in Southern parts of Chennai to start soon

The Chennai Corporation will start work on stormwater drains in southern parts of the city in two weeks.

The work is expected to start next year on the development of stormwater drains in the northern parts.

At least ₹2,600 crore is expected to be spent on the development of stormwater drains, the eco-restoration of waterbodies and he interlinking of tanks in the Tiruvottiyur, Manali, Madhavaram, Ambattur, Sholinganallur, Perungudi and Alandur zones.

However, residents have started a campaign to stop the development of stormwater drains in areas like Sholinganallur.

Officials of the Corporation are planning to conduct a meeting with residents associations, explaining the significance of the development of stormwater drains.

Multilateral agencies such as the Asian Development Bank and KfW have funded the project to develop stormwater drains in various parts of the city. The work is expected to be completed in two years.

The World Bank has already funded the construction of stormwater drains in the Adyar and Cooum basins. More than 95% of the work has been completed.

 

Centralised system to help Chennai corporation monitor 2.8 lakh LED streetlights

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The Times of India        17.12.2017

Centralised system to help Chennai corporation monitor 2.8 lakh LED streetlights

 

CHENNAI: The city corporation has inched closer towards implementing a centralised control and monitoring system for the 7,077 feeder boxes and 2.8 lakh LED street lights connected in the city.

The civic body has received technical bids from service providers last week, after tenders were floated for setting up the system two months ago.

The project, if implemented, will help in better monitoring of feeder boxes even in remote locations and will help the civic body attend to faults immediately, thereby improving service, officials said. The tentative cost of the project is ₹48 crore, of which the civic body has been sanctioned ₹14.07 crore under the Nirbhaya fund.

The feeder pillar boxes are currently provided with automatic timer-based on/ off switches. The street lights too are switched on and turned off at scheduled timings. “But the functioning of these switching points have to be done manually. This system will help in monitoring of the switching points from one location,” an engineer with the electrical department said.

The engineer also pointed out that changes in the scheduling of on/off of the lights will have to be done directly at the feeder box only and due to frequent operation over a period of time, the timer loses accuracy.

“This is another reason why different set of street lights switch on and off at different timings. For instance, in some areas, street lights would not have switched on even after it gets dark while in some areas they are on before daylight fades,” a senior official with city corporation said. Further, the switch on/ off time for streetlights varies across the year, depending on the sunlight intensity.

To make these changes, workers will have to go to the feeder boxes. “By group monitoring, we ensure that all lights go on at the same time and do not have depend on a field worker for that,” the official added.

The system will also help the electrical department monitor faults in streetlights and attend to them before they are raised by the public. This group monitoring and control centre will be integrated with the command and control centre of the city corporation, which is expected to be up and running by January next year.

Last Updated on Tuesday, 17 December 2019 08:04
 

Velachery MRTS station parking work to begin

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The New Indian Express            08.11.2019 

Velachery MRTS station parking work to begin

Panneerselvam had announced in Assembly that a multi-level parking complex at a project cost of `80 crore is proposed at the railway station.


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CHENNAI: Commuters of Velachery on Mass Rapid Transit System can heave a sigh of relief as the government has started work to realise the proposed multi-level parking which was announced by Deputy Chief Minister O Panneerselvam earlier this year.Work has started on the facility at MRTS Velachery station with Tamil Nadu Urban Infrastructure Financial Services  helping CMDA to appoint a consultant to prepare the Detailed Project Report (DPR).

Panneerselvam had announced in Assembly that a multi-level parking complex at a project cost of `80 crore is proposed at the railway station. This also comes when MRTS is to be taken over by Chennai Metro Rail.The DPR will consist of detailed conceptual designs, detailed engineering designs, environmental, social, economic, financial, legal and regulatory reports. It is learnt that the focus will be on what kind of multi-level parking could be constructed on technical, commercial, financial, operation and maintenance.

The railway station is a transit hub accessed by commuters using two-wheelers and four-wheelers. Currently, the demand for parking space is so high that railways have opened two parking yards, which are currently used to full capacity.A couple of years ago, there was a plan to build additional two floors at Velachery MRTS station, which could be used as office space, but the project could not be implemented. Sources said that it was due to the delay in taking up of MRTS by Chennai Metro Rail.

Design, technical & commercial aspects
The DPR will consist of detailed conceptual designs, detailed engineering designs, environmental, social, economic, financial, legal and regulatory reports. It is learnt that the focus will be on what kind of multi-level parking could be constructed on technical, commercial, financial, operation and maintenance.

 


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