Anand Chidambaram

Individual living in India

[OMR Updates @OMRupdates]

#OMR Unless priority is given to pedestrians, people won't opt for public transport

[Anand Chidambaram @canand]

@ChennaiTraffic @chennaicorp @CMOTamilnadu @R_Kumar_TVK Parking in Arundale Beach Road

[Anand Chidambaram @canand]

@chennaicorp @CMOTamilnadu @R_Kumar_TVK Vehicles are parked permently in Arundale Beach Road and Muthu Lakshmi Salai. Pedestrians are walking on the road risking thier life. We need footpath to prevent vehicles parking and save pedestrians

[Anand Chidambaram @canand]

@chennaicorp @CMOTamilnadu @R_Kumar_TVK We complained to Chennai traffic police. No action was taken. Footpath is the reqponabliry of Chennai corporation. Chennai corporation should do a inspection and study the issue. Just pushing the issue to police will not help. @sameerangs

[Anand Chidambaram @canand]

@chennaicorp @CMOTamilnadu @R_Kumar_TVK Vehicles are parked permently in Arundale Beach Road and Muthu Lakshmi Salai. Pedestrians are walking on the road risking thier life. We need footpath to prevent vehicles parking and save pedestrians

[Anand Chidambaram @canand]

@chennaicorp @CMOTamilnadu @R_Kumar_TVK @ChennaiTraffic Footpath for pedestrian has to be done by corporation

[Anand Chidambaram @canand]

@chennaicorp vehicles are parked on both sides of Arundale Beach Road Kalakshetra Colony. Pedestrians are waking on the middle of the road. Please lay footpath removing vehicles. This is needed in Muthu Lakshmi Salai near Pamaban koil.@CMOTamilNadu

[Anand Chidambaram @canand]

@Sureshgopioffcl Trichur station is badly maine. As an MP what action is being taken to improve the station

[Anand Chidambaram @canand]

@TVKVijayHQ @CTR_Nirmalkumar @TANGEDCO_Offcl There are many unutilized distribution boxes used as urinals in Arundale Beach Road Kalakshetra Colony Besant Nagar. Need action.

[Anand Chidambaram @canand]

@CTR_Nirmalkumar TNEB has lot of unused junction boxes which are used as public urinals and garbage box in Arundale Beach Road, Besant Nagar. Request action

[The Kaipullai @thekaipullai]

Chennai needed a new airport

So the DMK guys all bought land in Parandur and declared the airport to be built there.

Then DMK lost elections

TVK guys realized they don't have any land there

So now they will buy land in some place like Chengalpet, Vikravandi, Arani or Ambur and announce the new Chennai Airport there

Then they will lose the elections

That airport also will be stopped

There is a easy solution to all of this

So why don't all political parties come together in a session, decide on a place for the airport, buy land there, then announce airport?

Win win for all no?

[Bhavesh Kansara @kansaratva]

Chennai gets much flak for its airport. Many who have passed through the airport, and some who haven't, go bonkers over its incompetent management. However, if you think with a rational mind, you would realize that the airport does not deserve this much flak. It deserves more.

[The Kaipullai @thekaipullai]

Any warmth, optimism and positivity that you have towards Chennai evaporates the moment you try catching a cab after stepping out of the airport

Because unlike most cities where you get out, open an app, book a cab and go, in Chennai you have to

Haul your luggage in the enervating heat to an overcrowded buggy stand.

Then wait for an buggy which takes an eternity to arrive.

Into which you are then stuffed like a sardine in a can and driven for 20 mins to a god forsaken "mall"

Where you again have to compete with a batallion of tired and hungry travellers and their luggage to get onto an elevator

Which will take you 3 floors up to a taxi stand where you hope there is cab available

Which will then drive you down those very three floors to take you into the city

I seriously cannot comprehend how the supposedly knowledgeable Chennai people messed up something as simple as an Airport cab pick up

All of Chennai's aspirations to be a megapolis dies in that gap between the airport arrival and that cab pickup station

[Tara Deshpande @Tara_Deshpande]

Please help.

[Ananthan Ayyasamy @AnanthAyyasamy]

Four years ago, I sat down with my 12-year-old daughter in the US and told her I was walking away from a successful tech career and real estate business to return to India for public service and politics.

At that age, she didn’t realize “public life” would slowly take her Appa away from her for months… and years.

But I came with conviction.

So for the last 4 years, we gave everything we had — for example -In villages like Subramaniapuram and Vellanaikottai, we built bus shelters, restored a 100-acre pond, removed seemai karuvelam, strengthened bunds, planted thousands of palm saplings, supported students’ education, organized medical camps and career workshops, built community sheds, encouraged youth and sports activities, and contributed to annadanams.

It cost several ten lakhs of hard-earned money - just for this village alone. But more than money, it cost time… family moments… and precious years watching my daughter grow up from far away.

Then elections came.

And the same village chose a candidate who had barely visited them in five years.

In the end, one week of election-time money defeated four years of sincere service.

Yesterday, my daughter quietly asked me over video call:

“Appa… can you now tell me what exactly politics is?”

For the first time in my life, I did not have an answer for my chellaponnu.

@svembu

[Sumanth Raman @sumanthraman]

Want to bring to your attention to a sorry story from last week. A patient known to me was admitted around 2 a.m in an unconscious state and with breathing difficulty at RGGGH, Chennai in the IMCU. I visited the patient around 10 pm that night (almost 20 hours later).

First the ward itself. It was so dirty that I couldn't believe it was an ICU.I had removed my slippers when I went in and they were caked in dirt when I left.

There were sometimes 2 attenders sitting on the patient's bed. The smell in the ward was overpowering.

The irony was that the ward was well equipped with multi parameter monitors, ventilators and other equipment. Yet it resembled a general ward.

Why can't visitors be restricted? Why can't the floor be kept clean?
How will any patient susceptible to an infection stand a chance?

I would like to say that things were better than they were 30 years ago when we worked there but from a hygiene and cleanliness perspective they clearly weren't.

Do they not know that keeping a ward so dirty will harm lives?

Why is nothing being done?

So many shiny buildings are built. Many fancy equipment are procured but something as basic as cleanliness and infection control that form the heart of good healthcare is neglected.

Will do a separate post on the quality of care I saw there later.

[Anand Chidambaram @canand]

@Elica_India purchased a cook top. Installation is yet to happen inspite of making calls to your customer service.

[🇮🇳 Vidyasagar Jagadeesan🇮🇳 @jvidyasagar]

Guindy station West side. Where is the Swachhata Abhiyan? @DrmChennai

[Anand Chidambaram @canand]

@TataPlayin Your customer service is terrible. They just don't care about customer. Simple problem like set top box not working is not resolved after 3 days.

[Anand Chidambaram @canand]

@tcl_india I am keen to purchase C72k 65 inches. There is no stock.