When we planted these trees we had a dream of seeing them grow and transform the Radial Road into a greener stretch. Now this is unacceptable. Need stringent action against those ppl
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The worst decision @TVKVijayHQ ever. This will dent the TN Economy in coming years. Only few hundred are protesting, try to reconsider the decision for the sake TN and it's people.
@mynameissmeka Boss overseas nu onu iruku.Goat North America gross itself close to 4.5 million where other films didn't even touch 1.5 million. I don't want to talk about Ajith film in overseas.
We see our home planet as a whole, lit up in spectacular blues and browns. A green aurora even lights up the atmosphere. That's us, together, watching as our astronauts make their journey to the Moon.
Complete lawlessness and mining mafia raj in Tamilnadu now. After Tirunelveli and Pudukkottai, now in Karur. What is CM Stalins answer to the Mining mafia Rowdies as DMK MLA and party functionaries ? Is Stalin heading a mafia govt ? @mkstalin
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Chennai’s zero-waste plan a flop-show.
Chennai’s disgraceful 38 out of 40 rank in last year’s Swachh Survekshan cleanliness rankings is no accident. Five years after Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) launched its muchhyped ‘zero waste’ policy, promising no garbage would reach landfills, the system has collapsed. Today, the civic body processes less than 10% of the city’s wet waste, while the rest is dumped in landfills.
Door-to-door segregation is non-existent, and failure lies squarely with GCC. The corporation shut down almost all of its 250-odd micro, nano and vermi-composting centres as it could not maintain them. It closed wet waste processing centres in zonal offices that once produced compost, cocopeat manure, and even processed lemon and mosambi extracts.
The composting centre next to mayor R Priya’s office in Perambur is now being used as a parking yard for conservancy vehicles. The staff there said the centre has not been functioning for a year. At Murasoli Maran Park, the composting centre has vanished. So has the vermi-composting centre along Otteri Nullah in Anna Nagar Sixth Avenue. A large segregation unit next to Royapuram zonal office was converted into a full-fledged cattle impounding centre.
Sanitation workers here admit that segregation is informal and arbitrary. In places such as the service lanes of 100-feet road in Retteri and the stretch along Thiruvottiyur railway station, the solid waste management contractor does not have basic equipment to segregate waste. Garbage is dumped in large roadside bins and later hauled to dumpyards.
Although GCC claims that the shut centres were close to residential areas, composting centres in Madipakkam and Pallikaranai that were built away from homes, were closed down too. These centres, which produced manure and dishwash liquid, sold at ₹10 a kg, are now being used as dumpyards for dry waste.
The bio-CNG projects have been in limbo for three years now. GCC announced five 100-tonne plants — two at Koyambedu for market waste, two at Sholinganallur, and one at the Perungudi dumpyard. The projects were dropped due to funding issues and protests in Perungudi. A 500-tonne windrow composting plant at Kodungaiyur dumpyard also failed to take off. Now, at least 2,700 tonnes of waste go straight to landfills every day.
Privatised waste management in 13 zones at a cost of more than ₹500 crore a year hasn’t helped either. On one hand, the budget for solid waste management rose from ₹87 crore in 2024 to ₹352 crore in 2025. But, most of it was spent on biomining, instead of primary-level processing. Officials say two bioCNG plants would be operational by the end of 2026.
The I&B Ministry’s attempt to block ‘Jana Nayagan’ is an attack on Tamil culture.
Mr Modi, you will never succeed in suppressing the voice of the Tamil people.