Cropped page The Times OfCCI India NG 3.7 - Chennai,Product: 10/19/2019TOIChennaiBS PubDate: 19-10-2019 Zone: Chennai Edition: 1 Page:Page:TOICHP5 5 User: anantha.ramanathan Time: 10-18-2019 23:47 Color: CMYK THE TIMES OF INDIA, CHENNAI SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2019 TIMES CITY 5 Mambalam skywalk project CMO query: Can city be as Smart Chef clean as for could take shape by year-end Next-Gen Kitchen Appliances Mo-Xi visit? for Healthy & Tasty Cooking Would Help Commuters Avoid Crowded Usman Road TIMES NEWS NETWORK File photo TIMES NEWS NETWORK struction of the skywalk. Chennai: The Chief Minis- According to GCC offi- ter‘s Office has asked the ------- Chennai: The Greater Chen- cials, the skywalk will mea- Greater Chennai corpora- ---- nai Corporation (GCC) is con- sure 600m in length and 4m in tion (GCC) if every zone can Aim fident that the long-pending width and will have three en- be kept as clean as the few skywalk project connecting try/exit points. areas that were when Prime Mambalam railway station Its design will also focus Minister Narendra Modi Qom` and T Nagar bus terminus on providing easy access to and Chinese President Xi __ UP will come to fruition by the senior citizens and persons Jinping visited the city re- Sandwich Grill & Pop-Up Toaster Induction Cooktop Oven ( OTG) Power Grinder & Btender+ end of this year. with disabilities. cently. Rice Cookers -Electric Kettles -Juicers SS Vacuum Flasks & Bottles - Blenders & Mixers Conceived four years ago, “There will be ramps and GCC commissioner G the project took shape last tactile strips to help the vi- Prakash posed this ques- For Demo: 9582-123-456 1 kent.co.in I Available at ail leading stores. year after the civic body pre- sually challenged… the sky- tion to officials during a re- pared a detailed report. Ten- walk will be fitted with pull- view meeting held earlier ders have been issued thrice out ladders for escape in case this week, sources said. Pra- so far this year, but have not of emergencies,” an official kash asked the field officers Duo robs woman of gold chain in Mangadu been awarded yet. said. what could be the plan to Bids were invited from While the project itself make every zone litter free TIMES NEWS NETWORK needed her help to look after their daughter in contractors for the fourth has been caught in a bureau- and maintain them so that Bengaluru. They took her to Mangadu and time recently. ELEVATED LINK: If constructed, the skywalk project would link T cratic quagmire since its in- the entire city would look as Chennai: A 35-year-old woman and her male ac- asked her to wait there for a while. The duo re- “The project will definite- Nagar bus terminus with Mambalam railway station ception in 2015, residents of T clean as it did during the In- complice robbed a woman of her gold jewellery ly happen. Last time, three Nagar and regular commu- dia-China informal sum- weiging four sovereigns in Mangadu on the pre- bidders took part. Since the crore. Funds for the project Ranganathan Street and Rail- ters were unsure if the pro- mit. text of giving her a job as a domestic help. Both CHEATED WITH ‘JOB OFFER’ whole process is online, there would be drawn from the coff- way Border Road everyday to ject will be a success story. Sources said ground-lev- the accused are on the run. was a lacuna in the docu- ers of Chennai Smart City enter and exit the railway sta- “The main problem for pe- el officers proposed to take Police said Lavanya of Kamakshiamman turned and sprinkled a chemical on her face. La- ments they submitted. We re- Limited. tion. During festival seasons, destrians in T Nagar is en- up the challenge ward-by- Nagar in Mangadu, alleged that a man from her vanya regained consciousness after an hour jected the bids and issued The skywalk would facili- the footfalls rise to 1.5 lakh, croachments by vendors. ward and implement it for locality, identified as Shakthivel, approached and found that her gold chain was missing. fresh tenders. We are sure we tate passengers to reach the according to an official with Without clearing them, one zone at a time, gradually her with a job offer. Shakthivel introduced a Based on her complaint, the Poonamallee po- will have a successful bidder bus terminus and railway GCC’s Zone 10 (Kodambak- what’s the point in building a extending it across the city. woman as his wife and told Lavanya that they lice have launched an investigation. this time,” said an official station by avoiding crowded kam). After the project was new skywalk? In fact, it will with the bridges department Usman Road and Ranganath- announced, around 22 en- not be a surprise if vendors of GCC. an Street. croachments were identified encroach the skywalk like Once the tender is award- The structure will align last year and vendors on Rail- the foot-overbridges in rail- ed, the successful bidder will with the Railway Border way Border Road abutting way stations,” said B Siva get 15 months to complete the Road and Madley Road. the station’s compound wall Prakash, a resident of project, estimated at ``26.27 Around 50,000 people use were evicted to facilitate con- T Nagar. 701 ChennaiTimes Now, animals, This Diwali, light the green AN EVENING OF DANCE, MUSIC birds won’t 9 go thirsty at fuse with clay seed crackers AND CHENNAI CHANCE-EY lILA TOI S [email protected] different types of crackers ready. In case the demand rises, these rly stns Chennai: This Diwali could be the moulds will be used for cre- [email protected] among the greenest. People ating seed crackers,” he said. GOLU CONTEST WINNERS now have the option of buying With Diwali just a week Chennai: At least seven water seed ‘fireworks’ made of clay, away, it was decided to sell these bowls have been kept in gov- which when buried in the soil or crackers in the department’s ernment railway police (GRP) thrown in the air to fall to the Madhavaram nursery, Sem- stations in Chennai Central, ground will germinate and mozhi Poonga, the head office Egmore, Tambaram, Koruk- grow into various native tree premises on Wallajah road and kupet, Chengalpattu and Tiru- species. Each ‘cracker’, priced ECO FRIENDLY: Each clay seed Tiruvanmiyur sales depot, Sub- vallur railway stations to help at just ``2, is shaped like normal cracker costs just ``2 baiyan said. birds, dogs and squirrels rockets, flower pots, chakka- Instead of cursing pollution quench their thirst. rams and ‘Lakshmi vedi’, Native seeds include that of due to bursting of crackers, it C Sylendra Babu, director among others. neem, poovarasu, banyan, pun- was decided to use the opportu- general of police, GRP, said Horticulture director N gan, peepal and silk cotton. The nity to sell the cracker like seed teenager Sai Ganesh, an avid Subbaiyan told TOI that the idea of the seed cracker is to balls, which will help in reduc- animal welfare activist, ap- idea to create and sell seed make people understand the ing pollution levels in the city. proached him for permission crackers germinated in the de- need for planting native species “One cannot expect the results to keep the water bowls at the partment last week. “Immedi- of trees. The department is to be instant. If the seed crack- GRP stations. “Considering his ately, the seed crackers were planning to sell about 5,000 such ers are sown this Diwali, by RUKMINI interest in helping the animals created. These model crackers seed crackers. It takes only five next year they will help in re- VIJAYAKUMAR and after going through his were embedded with seeds of minutes to create them and it is ducing pollution levels, wherev- Bharathanatvani VIDHA LAL profile, we agreed to keep the half a dozen species of native manually done now. “The de- er they are sown,” Subbaiyan bowls,” he said. Sai Vignesh trees,” he said. partment is keeping moulds of added. Kathak said on many occasions, ani- mals, especially stray dogs, I'a were killed or were severely in- jured during summer in rail- New govt AC bus way stations when they go in DRI seizes 1 lakh search of water under the com- partments. To avoid this, it was to Erode town to decided to keep bowls of water psychotropic tablets on the premises, he said. have more seats At Central, two bowls have C.u-riatic Cuiiccrt by been provided. Chennai: The new air-conditioned DR. S. SOWMYA from courier office government bus, scheduled to ply be- TIMES NEWS NETWORK Immediate follow up tween Chennai and Sathyamanga- searches carried out at the lam in Erode district, will have more Gold, cash Chennai: The Chennai zon- mastermind’s address in the seats. YAMINI REDDY al unit of the Directorate of city and on the premises of a So far, all new State Express Kuchipudi Revenue Intelligence (DRI) courier franchisee through Transport burgled has seized 1.37 lakh psycho- whom the consignments Corporation Chennai: Burglars struck at tropic tablets and potency- were booked and routed, re- (SETC) bus- two houses in Red Hills and increasing drugs which sulted in the seizure of large es have 2x2 Navratri marks the beginning of festivities every year. The Times of India invites you to a mesmerizing Ambattur on Thursday night were about to be smuggled to quantities of psychotropic seating ar- evening of dance performances by Rukmini Vijayakumar, Yamini Reddy and Vidha Lal themed as Tridevi , and escaped with 17 sover- the US by air.