C M Y MAMBALAM K TIMES The Neighbourhood Newspaper for T. Nagar & Mambalam www.mambalamtimes.in Vol. 22, No. 28 1123rd Issue : December 3 - 9, 2016 FREE Page 2 December 3 - 9, 2016 MAMBALAM TIMES C M Y T. NAGAR BAZAAR K This column is intended to help small businesses in & around T.Nagar and West Mambalam to have a cost-effective advertisement medium. Advertisement in this section will be in standard panel sizes of 4 cm. x 1 column (costing only Rs. 500) and 4 cm. x 2 column (costing Rs. 1000) This space costs Rs. 500 only. Ayyappan songs concert Prediction of cyclone causes tomorrow panic in low lying areas By Our Staff Reporter By Our Staff Reporter Veeramani Raju will present ‘Lord Ayyappan’ devotional Following the prediction of cyclone and heavy rains in songs at 6 p.m on Sunday, Dec. 4 in Mahodhaya Hall, 4th Chennai and its suburbs on Dec. 1 and 2, a number of Avenue and 7th Avenue junction in Ashok Nagar. residents living in ground floor tenements in low lying There will be ‘Malar adi pooja’ for Lord Ayyappan. areas were a worried lot. All are welcome. More details can be had in 98416 39190. A number of vehicles and household/electronic items of residents living in low lying areas had got damaged during the flash floods last December. 100-year-old building misused A number of residents moved their vehicles and parked them elsewhere as a precautionary measure. Some offices housed in ground floor apartments even moved out important documents and computers. “I lost almost all my belongings last year as my house was in 7 feet deep water for almost 4 days”, said Arogyaraj, a resident of Jafferkhanpet. “Though the city is in dire need of rains, the sudden announcement of cyclone and 2-day leave for schools got me worried. I just moved some expensive items to my neighbour’s house on the 1st floor as a precautionary measure”, he added. Fire Department’s disaster equipment not repaired By Our Staff Reporter A punctured rubber boat and unusable motorbike fitted with fire fighting and rescue equipment used By Our Staff Reporter during last December floods by Ashok Nagar Fire and The more than 100-year-old building housing a TUCS ration Rescue Station have still not been repaired. shop on Ramesaram Road, T. Nagar near Rangan Street, is An official said that sanction for the repairs has been in a dilapidated condition and being used as public convenience received and will be done soon. He said that the depart- and for anti-social activities. ment is well equipped to handle emergencies like floods. December 3 - 9, 2016 Page 3 MAMBALAM TIMES C M Y Pariveshayati A protective father Corporation to K Trust offers help to implement skywalk old age homes project in T. Nagar Pariveshayati Trust (25, The Corporation will soon Venkatachalam Street, West implement the project to Mambalam) was started by a develop the skywalk in T. group of youngsters in March Nagar with funding from the this year. Smart City Mission. Its members and volunteers It had announced the project offer help in orphanages and in 2012 to offer connectivity old age homes. They also serve for pedestrians from Mam- food and provide basic balam railway station to T. necessities to these homes. Nagar bus terminus. Orphanages and old age The project is expected to homes in need of help may cost approximately Rs. 22 contact the Trust in 96770 crore. 61413. Passengers from Mam- Homes approaching it for balam railway station can help will be checked by reach the T. Nagar bus members before assistance is terminus using the facility. offered. Anyone with an However, resident associations interest in social service is in T. Nagar have objected to welcome to join the Trust and the project claiming that the facility will increase conges- support its activities. By Our Staff Reporter tion. For more details visit its A father was seen trundling his bicycle and holding an Facebook page https:// umbrella at the same time to protect his son sitting on the www.facebook.com/ carrier from the rain at around 3 p.m on Dec. 1 in15th Avenue, pariveshayatitrust/ Ashok Nagar. Vadapalani junction flyover Woman jumps off building, dies opened to traffic Sharmila (24) jumped to her death from a building on Raja Bather Street, T. Nagar, follo- wing a heated argument with her lover. According to police, Sharmila, who worked in a hair care clinic, befriended a 22- year-old man from Salem district through Facebook. They subsequently fell in love and decided to marry. Though the boy’s parents had given their consent for the marriage, they wanted them to postpone it until the boy’s sister got married. But Sharmila and her family By Our Staff Reporter insisted that he marry her The new 600-meter-long flyover running parallel but at a immediately. lower level than the Metrorail track on Jawaharalal Nehru Following a heated argument Road, Arcot Road junction, Vadapalani has been opened to over the issue on phone, traffic. Sharmila, in a fit of rage, rushed It is expected to reduce the congestion on Jawaharlal Nehru to fourth floor balcony of the Road at MMDA junction, Arumbakkam, Arcot Road junction, clinic and jumped off it. The and Vadapalani and 2nd Avenue junction, Ashok Nagar. employees of the clinic rushed her to a hospital but she was If anything interesting is declared dead on arrival. happening in your neighbourhood A case registered in Pondy Bazaar Police Station is under please inform Mambalam Times. investigation. Page 4 MAMBALAM TIMES December 3 - 9, 2016 C M Vacant Corporation building to No rainwater harvesting in old buildings NGO launches Y be used for performing last rites campaign against K gender violence By Our Staff Reporter Prajnya, a NGO, started a 16-day campaign against gen- der violence on Nov. 25. It has put up mannequins in some parts of Chennai to en- courage women to express themselves on sexual violence faced by them. In the canteen in Women’s Christian College, Nungambakkam, it has in- By Our Staff Reporter stalled a mannequin draped in There is no rainwater harvesting in many of the old buildings in the neighbourhood. a sari from the face down to The rainwater from such buildings is let out into the stormwater drain. below the waist with stickers The pictures show how rainwater is wasted in the two buildings with no rainwater harvesting marking parts of the body facility in G. N. Chetty Road, T. Nagar and Lake View Road, West Mambalam respectively. By Our Staff Reporter where women have been The renovation of the vacant Corporation building to house touched inappropriately while a facility for performing last rites and similar rituals is nearing Lack of heavy rain prompts hut dwellers moving in public places. completion on Kamaraj Colony, T. Nagar. “We first placed the manne- The vacant premises had earlier been misused as a cattle to return quin outside the canteen with a By Our Staff Reporter shed. poster explaining what it was. A number of huts built on the Within half an hour, it was cov- banks of Adyar River, She specializes in translation ered with stickers. We moved Jafferkhanpet, which were it inside the canteen in the By Our Staff Reporter washed away during the flash evening and, the next day, more Rajalakshmi Sivalingam (resident of 10, floods last December, were stickers appeared. It’s great Prasanth Flats, 24, Jothi Ramalingam later rebuilt by the occupants, that students feel they can Street, West Mambalam) is a freelance After the Meteorological express themselves about ha- writer who specializes in translation and Dept. issued a cyclone alert for rassment. This could also lead content development. Dec. 1 and 2, many of the to important conversations,” She belongs to a family of writers and her occupants moved out with their said Helen Thimmayya, head husband Sivalingam is well known for his belongings. But when it did not of the English department. translation of APJ Abdul researchers, writers and rain heavily on Dec. 1, most of The organization has also Kalam’s autobiography ‘Wings publishers of books and them returned to their huts. placed similar mannequins in of Fire’ into Tamil. magazines in translation. Corporation had removed Shree Ayurvedic Multi-spe- She is the writer of the column She is the content editor for rubbish, desilted the river and widened it two months back in preparation for the monsoon. cialty Hospital, West ‘Muthukkal Paththu’ in The the free children’s magazine Mambalam, and the Interna- Hindu’s Tamil edition in which ‘Naalai Namathey’ that has Concrete surface for Toll levy resumes tional Foundation for Crime she writes ten sentences each articles on science, scientists, on national Prevention and Victim Care, about accomplished environment and other Guild Street Anna Nagar which have in- personalities and unsung subjects. highways voked very good response. heroes born on that day. She has a daughter and a By Our Staff Reporter She has translated several son. Road Transport and Police conduct popular books from English Her contact numbers are Highways Ministry and private into Tamil and has also assisted 2371 7988 and 94443 88147. operators have started safety awareness charging toll on National program in Most pharmacies not accepting Highways from Dec. 3 Raghavan Colony For toll payments above Rs. Raghavan Colony Welfare old 500 notes 200 and for buying monthly Association organized a safety By Our Staff Reporter toll pass, old Rs. 500 notes can awareness program for Central govt. has announced that the old Rs.