Registered with the Reg. No. TN/CH(C)/374/18-20 Registrar of Newspapers Licenced to post without prepayment for India under R.N.I. 53640/91 Licence No. TN/PMG(CCR)/WPP-506/18-20 Publication: 1st & 16th of every month Rs. 5 per copy (Annual Subscription: Rs. 100/-) INSIDE ● Short ‘N’ Snappy ● An unlikely couple ● Walk through Sowcarpet ● Inscription wealth ● Lorrypuram to Madhavaram WE CARE FOR MADRAS THAT IS CHENNAI Vol. XXVIII No. 5 June 16-30, 2018 How (not to) maintain educational campuses! (By The Editor) or all the talk about Swacch Bharath and the necessity for Fcleanliness in public spaces, we appear to be doing very little by way of addressing the most impressionable target audience – students. Most college campuses, in particular the ones run by the Government, present a sorry picture of neglect and bad maintenance. Given the general squalor that abounds, how do we expect our students to grow up to be responsible citizens? Take the Presidency and Queen Mary’s College campuses. Both It is planned to build a road in the spaciousness in front of the Brodie Castle (rear left), the home of the Tamil Nadu are in terrible shape with very little attention being paid to their College of Music, to enable ministers to get home a few minutes quicker while disturbing a sylvan, if ill-kept campus. Iron upkeep. It is a wonder that bars are sure to follow (see MM, June 1, 2018). Photo: R. Raja Pandiyan. students continue to study at these places. Perhaps they do not have any choice in the matter. The hostels are in worse Time to team for a cleaner city shape and the protests by students staying in them are t is disappointing that distinction of being the most Plastic in solid waste poses a sing awareness campaigns. Less regular affairs. The Teachers’ I Chennai City, which was responsive among the southern problem in solid waste disposal. than one per cent of waste from College, Saidapet lost at least a 235th out of 434 cities of India states, with three of its cities According to The World Swedish households goes to couple of its heritage buildings in the 2017 Report of Swachh moving upwards from report to Economict present, Forum the Chennai study, ifMet- plas- relationships?landfill dumps. Has an expert to Metro Rail and what is left is Survekhsan by the Ministry of report – Vishakapatnam mov-Aticropolitan pollution Areacontinues is 1,189to rise, studyConcerted been done rejection to assess of whatplas- dilapidated. Housing and Urban Affairs ing up from 44th rank to 5th,sq.kmoceans after will its have notification more plastics in needstic usage to be itselfdone wouldto result reduce in a But this is not all. It also (MoHUA), has failed to im- Hyderabad from 50th to 19th1975.than CMDA fish by intends 2050. India’sto expand con- positivesolid waste impact and on of decongestion, a component appears that the administration prove upon its ranking in the and Vijayawada from 46th toit totribution 8,878 to sq.km plastic wasteengulfing that is reducedthat is difficultpollution in and disposal. improved The is forever trying to build upon 2018 report covering 4041 cit- 23rd. Tamil Nadu has nothingTiruvallurdumped andinto theKancheepuram world’s oceans qualitynon-water of life? closet solid waste whatever empty space that is ies. The full report for 2018 is similar, to claim. Trichy andDistrictsevery yearand isArakkonam a massive 60 and per canWhen be treated the area by awas simple expanded home available in these campuses, yet to be released, but, when re- Nemili Taluks in Vellore District, todevice 1,189 sq.km,which Governmentcan be scaled rea- up thereby destroying the very leased, it would only help us to Chengalpattu becoming part of sonedfor combined that a largeaction area by resi-was atmosphere that such instit- know why we failed and not dents of apartment complexes. ● by A Specialthe Correspondent region. The objective is to needed to find the best possible utions are supposed to have. whether we did. anticipate the needs of the popu- locationSuch complexes for employment, could also afford- iso- The Lady Willingdon Institute A scientifically designed tool lation by 2026. ablelate housing pre-detergent and relocation applied of has a new block built, thank- kit for the Survey also doubles Enlargement of the City slumskitchen and developingwater for wateringconnecti- fully in sympathetic style, along- up as a detailed guideline for plants with some minimal treat- Coimbatore are within the firstregion,cent. and The that country too, generatesby over vity. This was primarily to be side the older building. The action by public agencies at lo- ment or filtering. Solar energy, 20 ranks but Chennai, as thesevenaround times 56 seems lakh highly tonnes complex of plas- achieved by creating satellite University of Madras’ south cal and control levels to raise rainwater harvesting, reverse capital of the State, isandtic over waste ambitious. annually. Reservations Chennai towns and peripheral ring roads. campus in Kotturpuram has and maintain cleanliness stan- osmosis treatment and waste- nowhere. on somegenerates issues 429 cannot tonnes be ofhelped. plastic Of five proposed towns, only managed get rid of whatever dards. The surveys of 2014 and water recycling should be The main components forHavewaste similar per objectives,day, which asis werenearly two – Manali and Maraimalai tree cover it had by way of put- 2017 show that of 434 cities adopted voluntarily by residen- swachhata are collection andspelt10 out, per beencent achievedof total municipal for the Nagar – were accomplished. This ting up new structures. The covered only three cities each in tial complexes, owning respon- transportation, processing andfirstsolid expansion waste. to 1189 sq.km? If has not been adequate to arrest latest to join the long list of Tamil Nadu and Andhra sibility for disposal of a good disposal and sanitation as indi-the answerTo reduce is in the this negative, menace, how the the rising overcrowding in casualties is the Arasu Isai Pradesh and each one in part of their own waste. cated by prevalence of open def-is anNational enlarged Green area a substituteTribunal forsug- Chennai city. The object of Kalluri aka Government Col- Karnataka and Kerala were If three bulk generators of ecation. Efficient handling ofsoundgested conception a ban on and disposable implemen- plas- making housing in suburbs an lege of Music located at Brodie’s within first 30 ranks – and only solid waste could be made to fall these operations has been spelttation?tic such If the as answercutlery, is bags in the and attractive option has not been Castle, on the banks of the one each within the first ten. in line and deal with a good part out step by step. An interestingaffirmative,other items. would Sweden it not be has realis- run realised. Reports from residents Adyar. Mysuru consistently retained its of their own waste, the load on feature of the survey is that thetic toout break of trash the andproposed is asking massive other in outlying areas indicate that This has for long been a syl- first rank in 2104 and 2016 and the public system would come outcome is evaluated by inde-expansioncountries intofor their manageable garbage to local roads have not been put in van campus, despite its rather ranked as the fifth cleanest city down drastically and make col- pendent field observations andmodules,keep itsof therecycling same sizeplant as run-for place nor has the supply of indifferent maintenance. The in the country in the 2018 Re- lection of the rest more citizen feedbacks, not by relyingthening! first Swedenexpansion, has tackled without the serviced land for middle and port. Andhra Pradesh has the (Continued on page 2) only on collected numbers. weakeningpollution their at source organic by inter-organi- (Continued on page 2) CMYK 2 MADRAS MUSINGS June 16-30, 2018 Despoiling More on thanneer pandals educational hat with summer being it in the issuing of the com- is now a neighbour’s mango Where and showing no mand or in its implementation? tree that gives him the shivers. signs of leaving, though The Why is God a stone, asked a This being the season for the Man from Madras Musings third song and supplied the an- yellow fruit, this tree is heavy must admit that the heat is not swer – because man is also with it. And at all times of the campuses a patch on what it was last stone-hearted these days (film day and night, the fruit keeps year, the political parties, – Our Brother). Now what is falling. In the dead of night it (Continued from page 1) vehicles will use this as a road whose sympathy for the poor the party going to do about sounds exactly like a canon to reach Adyar Bridge. The and deserving is well known, melting such people MMM ball landing in your vicinity college is housed in the main entire campus will be destroyed are going overboard in setting wondered? Yet another, from and many a time MMM has building, the offices of the Vice and the college will be scarcely up water-dispensing kiosks all the film Upper Class Girl, woken up with his heart Chancellor of the Tamil Nadu able to function. over the city. Regulars of this asked one Palaniappa to see the pounding. When overhanging University of Fine Arts are in an This is also seen as a means column will recall that it was shallow ways of the Pattanam boughs let loose their fruits on annexe and there is also a splen- to get the college to leave just a fortnight or so ago that aka Madras aka Chennai.