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  Chennai - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Chennai is the automobile capital of India, with around forty percent of the automobile industry having a base there and with a major portion of the nation's vehicles being produced there.
Chennai is located at 13.04° N 80.17° E on the southeast coast of India and in the northeast corner of Tamil Nadu.
Chennai city is governed by the Corporation of Chennai, which consists of a Mayor and 155 Councillors representing the 155 Wards (all directly elected by the city residents), one of whom is elected by the other Councillors as a Deputy Mayor.
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 District Pofile - CHENNAI
Chennai, originally known as Madras Patnam, was located in the province of Tondaimandalam, an area lying between Pennar river of Nellore and the Pennar river of Cuddalore.
Important improvement made to Chennai city during the first half of the 19th century was the progress made in the establishment of institutions for professional and technical education.
Chennai is one of the leading cities in India today from the point of view of trade and commerce, with the fourth largest port in the country and the first to have developed a full-fledged container terminal to international standards.
www.chennai.tn.nic.in /chndistprof.htm   (3161 words)

  
 Chennai Corporation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Chennai Corporation is situated in the Ripon Building in Chennai.
The Chennai Corporation (also known as the Corporation of Chennai) is the civic body that governs the city of Chennai, India.
The Chennai Corporation is the oldest municipal body in India.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chennai_Corporation   (128 words)

  
 Nilacharal
Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewage Board would handle this project and it is expected to be completed in the next 18 months.
On its part, the Chennai Corporation should come to the rescue of the people by participating in the efforts taken by the government rather than settling political scores.
After many buildings came up in Chennai, all the rainwater is allowed to drain into gutters and there by allowed to mingle with sea water, without trying to retain them in the ground.
www.nilacharal.com /news/rajan/rajan92.html   (758 words)

  
 UNICEF India - Education
The key feature of the ABL method is that it uses child-friendly educational aids to foster self-learning and allows a child to study according to his or her aptitude and skill.
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 20 April 2006: Seven-year-old Veeramani, a student of the Corporation Middle school at Nungambakkam in Chennai city, walks up to his teacher and hands out his English notebook for correction.
The UNICEF-supported ABL venture, first undertaken by the Chennai Corporation in 13 schools on a trial basis in 2003, has been adopted by all the 270 primary schools in the district, transforming the way thousands of children are taught everyday.
www.unicef.org /india/education_1546.htm   (1015 words)

  
 Chennai
Chennai is one of the metro poliant city in India and also capital of Tamil Nadu.
Chennai is bestowed with a long beach abutting the Bay of Bengal.
In 1892 the society moved to Chennai and was set amidst a vast expanse of woods on the estuary of Adyar.
www.indiaandindians.com /tamilnadu/chennai/chennai.php   (1751 words)

  
 Metropolitan Transport Corporation
Metropolitan Transport Corporation (Chennai - Dn.I) Ltd formerly known as Pallavan Transport Corporation Ltd was established on 1.1.1972 with a fleet strength of 1029 buses.
Pallavan Transport Corporation was renamed as Metropolitan Transport Corporation (Chennai Division –1) Limited, Dr. Ambedkar Transport Corporation was re-named as Metropolitan Transport Corporation (Chennai Division-II) Ltd., on 01.07.97.
The fleet strength of the Corporation as on 31.03.2003 was 2773 with 23 depots, a body building unit at Chrompet, a ticket printing press at K.K Nagar and Reconditioning Unit at Pattulos Road.
www.tn.gov.in /transport/MTCchennai.htm   (168 words)

  
 Chennai, Chennai City Map, City Map of Chennai india, City map of Madras
Chennai is the capital of the state of Tamil Nadu and is India's fourth largest metropolitan city.
The city is governed by the Corporation of Chennai consisting of a Mayor and councilors.
Chennai boasts of rich historical legacy which lends an inexplicable charm to the city.
www.mapsofindia.com /maps/tamilnadu/chennai-map.htm   (269 words)

  
 Towards Singara Chennai - Interview with the Mayor - www.chennaibest.com
Actively involved in public life for over 20 years, the 47-year-old Mayor of Chennai is the 44th Mayor of the city, who entered the corridors of Ripon Building as Mayor, at the age of 44 in 1996.
The Corporation is the first Corporation in India, which has gone ahead with modern methods of garbage removal on such a large scale, using a private agency.
Finally, I should say that I have encouraged the corporate sector and the public to come forward and join with the Corporation and contribute towards the city's improvement.
www.chennaibest.com /discoverchennai/citylifestyle/interview01.asp   (1056 words)

  
 Chennai fears another deluge : chennai, floods, lakes : IBNLive.com : CNN-IBN
Chennai: Monsoon have arrived in Chennai bringing back the time for the city streets to wear that 'washed out' look.
VELACHERY a low lying area in CHENNAI is often a worst affected area during these weather conditions.Even after informing the...
Chennai is no more a water deprived City.
www.ibnlive.com /news/chennai-fears-another-deluge/24666-3.html   (433 words)

  
 The Hindu : Chennai Corporation bid to curb `cutting' culture
Three weeks after the Chennai Corporation suspended opening of all tenders following media reports of blatant corruption in the process, the civic agency is mulling over ways of making it corruption-resistant.
The Corporation Council, which met last August 29, witnessed uproarious scenes, with the DMK and the AIADMK coming to blows over an argument on the `cuttings' culture.
On September 4, the Corporation administration directed zonal officers that the opening of all tender applications, due to be openedthis month, be deferred until further notice.
www.hindu.com /2002/09/30/stories/2002093003800300.htm   (563 words)

  
 Monuments in Chennai,Monuments of Chennai India,Monuments Tour in Chennai,Chennai Monuments Tours,Travel to Chennai ...
Senate House, at the Chennai University campus on the Marina, was constructed in 1873 under the supervision of Robert Fellowes Chisholm, one of the greatest architects of the 19th century.
West of Central Station is Ripon Building, the dazzling white headquarters of the Corporation of Chennai.
The Municipal Corporation of Chennai, after functioning from several other places, settled at Ripon building in 1913, with P.L.Moore as the President of the Municipal Corporation at the time of the inauguration.
www.chennaihub.com /monuments-in-chennai.html   (1248 words)

  
 Chennai - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Chennai is a large commercial and industrial centre, and is known for its cultural heritage and temple architecture.
Chennai is also one of the rare cities to accommodate a national park, the Guindy National Park, within its city limits.The National Deer Park is the only place in the world, where one can still find a sizeable number of the endangered species of Indian antelope (the fl buck).
The Kapaleeshwarar temple in Mylapore is the oldest temple in Chennai.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chennai   (5100 words)

  
 Chennai gets respite from downpour
The weather office said the deep depression, which lay centred 150 km northeast of Chennai, was moving in a northwesterly direction and was likely to cross between Nellore and Machilipatnam in Andhra Pradesh on Friday afternoon.
Chennai experienced 42 cm of rain in 40 hours between Wednesday and midnight last.
Hi All, Really we appreciate chennai corporation peoples to clear the roads within a night and make us to move cool.
www.rediff.com /news/2005/oct/28rain1.htm   (365 words)

  
 Indian Journal of Environmental Education   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Although it is situated in Chennai (Madras) city, the C.P.R. Environmental Education Centre (CPREEC) has limited its work in the city to training teachers on integrating environmental education in the school curriculum and bringing about greater awareness of pollution and its related problems.
It is a sorry state of affairs that children living in the highly polluted environment of Chennai are rarely aware of the causes for the pollution.
Chennai’s major environmental problems are water pollution and garbage, both of which are hardly recognized by them.
cpreec.org /Journal/V1-march2000/03.html   (1952 words)

  
 Chennai (Madras)
Chennai (Madras), the capital of the state of Tamil Nadu, is the fourth largest city in the country of India.
Chennai, the cultural centre of South India and gateway to the state of Tamil Nadu, is a fascinating jumble dominated by glittering high-rise emporia and corporate buildings.
Chennai is the base for automobile manufacturing giants like Ford, Hyundai, Ashok Leyland; Nylon giant Dupont; and is the home for Indian tyre giant MRF.
members.tripod.com /APasupathy/Chennai.html   (372 words)

  
 The Hindu : Tamil Nadu / Chennai News : Corporation, not Collectorate, handles poll work
The responsibility of "elections" as a subject in Chennai district was shifted from the Corporation to the Collectorate some time back after problems between two civil servants cropped up.
It was the question of seniority of one civil servant that is responsible, recounts a Corporation staffer.
To start with, election officials, who are in the Chennai Corporation headquarters, have to drive more than two km for a signature — the earlier option was to walk up a flight of steps to reach the Commissioner's office.
www.hindu.com /2004/04/18/stories/2004041805750100.htm   (559 words)

  
 Tehelka - The People's Paper
The Chennai Corporation Area and Chennai Metropolitan Area (CMA) are two separate entities served by different agencies.
In the corporation area, responsibilities are divided between the Chennai Corporation, which maintains storm water drains, and the Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (also called Metrowater), which handles water supply and sewage.
Experts feel containing floods in Chennai could be a tough proposition as the Cooum and Adayar rivers have obstructions in their course.
www.tehelka.com /story_main14.asp?filename=Ne100105Chennai_At.asp   (837 words)

  
 Chennai Corporation - Public Announcements
M K Stalin, in his efforts to make Chennai as Singaara Chennai, has announced that this year will be observed as "Garbage Free Year" by the Corporation.
Chennai Corporation has also increased its capacity of garbage removal from 2500 tons to 3100 tons per day.
If, even after complaining, the garbage is not removed, public can register their complaints with Complaints Section in the Chennai Corporation Office: 5384510, 5384670.
www.chennaionline.com /todayinchennai/chennaicorp.asp   (130 words)

  
 Chennai Tourist Information
The Chennai Corporation and its council are functioning in this building.
The zoo is located in the Vandalur area of the Kanchipuram district, which is 35 kms away from the Chennai city.
The zoo was grounded in the Chennai central and later on shifted to the southern metropolitan area called Vandalur Reserved Forests in the year 1979.
www.chennaiguide.com /touristinfo.html   (921 words)

  
 Mayor's office slips out of Stalin's hand-Cities-NEWS-The Times of India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
CHENNAI: At the stroke of noon Friday, DMK heir apparent M K Stalin ceased to be the Mayor of Chennai, the position slipping into the hands of Tamil Nadu's ruling AIADMK party.
As AIADMK supporters welcomed Thyagarajan to the mayor's office, Stalin's pictures were hastily removed from Rippon Building, a heritage complex housing the Chennai Corporation and his engagements on the notice board ripped off.
At the same time the court said that election to the Chennai Mayor's post could not be held until the DMK case was disposed of.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow/msid-13690000,prtpage-1.cms   (495 words)

  
 Citizens Charter - Corporation of Chennai
Corporation maintains 62 dispensaries, communicable disease hospital at Tondiaret and T.B. Hospital at Puliathope public analyst to detect adulteration in food, pathology for Health test are located in Ripon Buildings.
Corporation administers polio vaccination to the children below the age of one year living in slum at free of cost.
corporation carried out improvement in private streets from the payment of improvement charges collected from the owners of the private land and also from the owners of the approved plot.
www.tn.gov.in /citizen/corpchn.htm   (2097 words)

  
 Chennai travel guide - Wikitravel
Chennai, also known as Madras, is the capital of the southern state of Tamil Nadu in India, and is the country's fourth-largest city.
While Chennai is not the cultural capital of Tamil Nadu - that honour belongs to either or to Thanjavur for the classical music and dance or to Madurai for the language, classical dance and music flow in the city's blood - for more, see the "Do" section.
Chennai is well connected to Bangkok, Colombo,Dubai, Fujairah, Kuala Lumpur, Kuwait, Muscat, Ra's al Khaimah, Sharjah and Singapore by Indian Airlines.
wikitravel.org /en/Chennai   (5951 words)

  
 The Chennai Right to Information - Latest News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The process for the receipt and approval of permissions to dig a road in Chennai city by any agency, government or private.
When we get this information, our volunteers will help determine if the process for permissions is being adhered to by the Corporation and if the digging agencies are adhering to the requirement of closing their digs.
We intend to bring all violations of the process to the notice of the Corporation officials.
chennairti.googlepages.com /announcements   (534 words)

  
 DMK captures Chennai corporation - Sify.com
In the elections to the Lok Sabha in 2004, the alliance had won all the 39 seats and in the elections to the Tamil Nadu Assembly in May this year, 166 of the 234 seats went to the alliance.
The DMK yesterday recaptured the Chennai municipal corporation after a gap of five years, by winning 90 of the 154 wards for which results had been declared so far, state election commission sources said.
The AIADMK, which had won 77 wards in the 2001 polls to the corporation and seven of the 14 Assembly seats from the city in the May elections, could win only four seats so far, while its ally MDMK won one.
sify.com /cities/chennai/fullstory.php?id=14316106   (314 words)

  
 Tehelka - The People's Paper
Chennai witnessed unprecedented violence on October 13 during elections to the Chennai Corporation Council.
In many ways, it was a repeat of the last elections to the Corporation in 2001, when the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) was in power.
Condemning the violence, CPM state secretary N. Varadarajan said, “The entire poll process was reduced to a cruel joke.” The CPM had contested in eight wards against the DMK.
www.tehelka.com /story_main21.asp?filename=Ne102806Chennai_poll.asp   (353 words)

  
 Metroblogging Chennai: Corporation Elections
A change in the rules stating that the elected councillors will choose the Mayor is supposed to be the reason for this extravagant spending.
From what I observe, I predict that Chennai is going to vote for ADMK with razor thin majority.
Written from the perspective of people who live, work, and play here every day, Chennai is one of over forty five (and growing) blogs in the globe-spanning Metroblogging network.
chennai.metblogs.com /archives/2006/10/corporation_elections.phtml   (230 words)

  
 Snags in Chennai waste disposal projects
In the earlier tender the Chennai Corporation had signed an MoU with Healing Medicaids to collect and dispose biomedical wastes from its hospitals at a rate of Rs 9.50 per kg.
Though the Corporation dispensaries and health centres generate only 300 kg of waste per day, the project would need to be of 10 tonnes per day capacity.
The initial proposal from the Corporation was for a composting project, which was later modified to a WTE project in addition to composting.
www.thehindubusinessline.com /2001/10/05/stories/140525ev.htm   (462 words)

  
 DMK sweeps Chennai corporation polls - Deccan Herald - Internet Edition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The DMK and its allies have have made a clean sweep of the civic polls by capturing the prestigious Chennai municipal corporation.
With this, the front has romped home in all the six municipal corporations and bagged 114 of the 152 municipalities and all the 29 district panchayats in the state.
The DMK has recaptured the Chennai municipal corporation after a gap of five years, by winning in 90 of the 149 wards.
www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/oct232006/national189420061022.asp   (298 words)

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