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Chennai's Rain Check
The recent floods in Chennai are a fallout of real estate riding roughshod over the city's waterbodies. Facilitated by an administration that tweaked and modified building rules and urban plans, the real estate boom has consumed the city's lakes, ponds, tanks and large marshlands.
[This article was written before the rains and floodings restarted on Sunday, 29 November 2015.]
The recent floods in Chennai are a fallout of real estate riding roughshod over the city’s waterbodies. Facilitated by an administration that tweaked and modified building rules and urban plans, the real estate boom has consumed the city’s lakes, ponds, tanks and large marshlands.
[This article was written before the rains and floodings restarted on Sunday, 29 November 2015.]Satyarupa Shekhar (satyarupa.shekhar@cag.org.in) and Madonna Thomas are with the Citizen Consumer and Civic Action Group, Chennai.
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