Saieswaran

Here for total time pass.

[Saieswaran @okdokiees]

@labstamil Lakshmi may have said this but genius Visu was behind many such masterpiece dialogues that apply even now and will apply in times to come.

[Saieswaran @okdokiees]

@CHN_Metro_Water @Sanjay_Pinto @chennaicorp Apart from just forwarding will be good if you can explain the actual issue,time that will take to set it right so that public are aware. Its been more than a month now, how can u work on this for so long with no accountability. Its a school zone safety of children @CMOTamilnadu

[Saieswaran @okdokiees]

@Sanjay_Pinto @CHN_Metro_Water @chennaicorp @Sanjay_Pinto this is today been 2 weeks now still no end to this misery no communication here from @CHN_Metro_Water or from school authorities, no one cares for the inconvenience of children, parents & van drivers. An yearly affair that goes for a month with no accountability

[Saieswaran @okdokiees]

@Sanjay_Pinto @CHN_Metro_Water @chennaicorp Sir see this, its a regular affair in this place especially outside this school gate and it takes weeks to set it right, school children, van drivers and parents have to endure this

https://t.co/7ryE4fIYMJ

[Saieswaran @okdokiees]

Somethings never change o/s PSBB KKNgr bumpy roads after digging just o/s school gate, begs attention, vehicles ride on broken platforms, no place for kids to walk @chennaicorp @sumanthraman @kbalakumar @Sanjay_Pinto @UpdatesChennai @PriyarajanDMK @rdc_south @RAKRI1 @omjasvinTOI

[Saieswaran @okdokiees]

@ChennaiTraffic @chennaipolice_ @chennaicorp @Ashokleyland9 Been 3 days since this was raised the bus continues to block the public bus stand no resolution. They park from 5pm to 8 am, as a result city bus stops in the middle of the road.

[Saieswaran @okdokiees]

@chennaipolice_ @chennaicorp @ChennaiTraffic this e bus of @Ashokleyland9 is parked on the bus stand in 11th avenue Ashok Nagar, kindly take necessary steps to keep bus stand free from encroachment, entire road is encroached by load vehicles.

[Saieswaran @okdokiees]

See photo with location tag @chennaicorp @chennaipolice_ @ChennaiTraffic

[Saieswaran @okdokiees]

@thoravazhakkan @ParamaDharma1 Veera Narayana perumal at Kattumanarkoil in TN

[Saieswaran @okdokiees]

@chennaiweather Sir, we had same problem despite updating the BC to match with Aadhar, school insisted we get this change published in gazette also. We did that too, pl check with school to avoid last min surprise as they insisted cbse may ask gazette change too.

[Saieswaran @okdokiees]

@ShreyaShah22 Well made Shreya covered every aspect 👍

[Saieswaran @okdokiees]

@chennaicorp https://t.co/6szuwoPzV3

There are pictures like these for which no action have been taken by anyone in the last one month.

[Saieswaran @okdokiees]

This cow man is back to encroach the platform & the vacant defense land on MKN Rd, Near Alandur Court. See my complaint in 12/24, no amount of complaints bring relief to the platform users @chennaicorp @kgbias @DavidManohar7 @UpdatesChennai @omjasvinMD @PriyarajanDMK

[Saieswaran @okdokiees]

No movement in this complaint since 1/7/25 see screenshot @kgbias @chennaicorp @reclaimchennai @UpdatesChennai @PriyarajanDMK @DavidManohar7 @sumanthraman @omjasvinMD

[Saieswaran @okdokiees]

This cow man is back to encroach the platform & the vacant defense land on MKN Rd, Near Alandur Court. See my complaint in 12/24, no amount of complaints bring relief to the platform users @chennaicorp @kgbias @DavidManohar7 @UpdatesChennai @omjasvinMD @PriyarajanDMK

[Saieswaran @okdokiees]

@kgbias @rdc_south @PriyarajanDMK @UpdatesChennai @sumanthraman @Ahmedshabbir20

[Saieswaran @okdokiees]

@reclaimchennai FYI please @rdc_south FY action please, blatant abuse of platform space

[Saieswaran @okdokiees]

This cow man is back to encroach the platform & the vacant defense land on MKN Rd, Near Alandur Court. See my complaint in 12/24, no amount of complaints bring relief to the platform users @chennaicorp @kgbias @DavidManohar7 @UpdatesChennai @omjasvinMD @PriyarajanDMK

[Saieswaran @okdokiees]

@EKaathu @chennaicorp @ChennaiTraffic Already this place is clogged by single lane due to metro pillar work, to add to it this double breaker on both sides of flyover. Worst hit are autos, cyclists who find so difficult to get over this bump. When will the left lane be opened for traffic@chennaicorp @ChennaiTraffic

[Saieswaran @okdokiees]

@UpdatesChennai You think privatisation will yield benefits? See the reporting on public toilet maintenance loot by privatising it. Unless they remove encroachment and be ruthless with encroachers nothing will change.

[Omjasvin M D @omjasvinMD]

Rs 430-crore ‘Loo’T: Who’s benefitting?

Is a scam worth multi-hundred crores of rupees possible in a seemingly humble and innocuous toilet maintenance contract? A scrutiny of the Greater Chennai Corporation’s (GCC) tender papers reveals a big ‘yes’.
How? A study of toilets in Royapuram zone is a case in point.

Between Jan 2022 and April 2023, GCC maintained a total of 1,431 toilet seats at a total cost of ₹16.62 lakh, which works out to ₹3.18 a seat per day. Needless to say, the toilet seats were filthy, stinking and a big put-away for people in need, however urgent it may be.

Later, for a six-month period from Feb to Aug 2023, GCC decided to privatise 2,519 public toilet seats including e-toilets and booth toilets in the same zone at an enhanced maintenance cost of ₹78 a seat per day — a jump of 24.5 times. And the total tender cost was ₹3.58 crore.

As if this was not enough, the daily maintenance cost of each seat was increased to ₹363.9 a day for a total of 3,270 seats in Royapuram, Thiru Vi Ka Nagar and Marina Beach — which is a 115-time in costs when GCC directly maintained the seats. The total cost of this tender was an eye-popping ₹430 crore for a period of eight years, including ₹82 crore for constructing 662 new toilet seats in these areas. The tender was prepared in Sept 2022, and a letter of acceptance for the contractor DRRSB Infra was given by the special projects department on Feb 16, 2023. Now GCC has decided to expand the scam across the city at a cost of ₹1,167 crore.

In just eight months, the maintenance cost of a toilet seat rose 115 times – from ₹3.18 per seat per day in Jan 2022 to ₹363.9 per seat per day in Sept 2022. This, when commercial establishments such as Slam Fitness, Naturalz, Vummudi Bangaru Jewellers, and Tony and Guy spend not more than ₹100 to maintain each toilet seat per day.

Despite this mega budget, toilet seats and toilet complexes remain stinky and unusable. Besides, Greater Chennai Corporation has been busy issuing showcause notices but is fighting shy of terminating or punishing the continuously defaulting contractor.
RTI responses accessed by TOI show the first showcause notice, by GCC superintending engineer (special projects) on Oct 27, 2023, said the contractor did not expedite work, showed “least interest” in the project, had poor implementation, did not meet milestones of constructing 21 toilets, and toilets remained with “broken tiles” and “sanitary fittings.” A notice on Dec 22, 2023, said the contractor used “unapproved” and “substandard construction material,” and there was a lack of cleaning staff. The Teyampet zonal officer on Jan 2, 2024, wrote that the contractor did not have the necessary cleaning equipment and accessories on the Marina and did not correct the issues despite repeated violations.
On Feb 8, 2024, the GCC commissioner issued a pre-termination notice, saying work execution was substandard, the contractor failed in key performance indicators, no improvements were made despite notices, and the contractor did not participate in any GCCchaired meetings.
An RTI response in Jan 2025 showed the contractor only set up 37 CCTV cameras against the 372 required. Without CCTVs, it is impossible to monitor the presence of staff from a centralised control room, which the contractor claims to have set up. GCC, which has been issuing paper threats to the contractor without punishing it for default in fulfilling tender conditions, has already released ₹24 crore to the contractor. (1/2)

[Saieswaran @okdokiees]

@asathishc @sumanthraman Hey Joker NEET was brought when Congress was in power in 2013 😄

[Saieswaran @okdokiees]

Sir/Madam pl look into this mess and abuse of public space, polluting the cold mornings causing health hazard for citizens @Subramanian_ma @PriyarajanDMK @kgbias Kindly act for making the city look/live better 🙏 All info in previous tweets

[Saieswaran @okdokiees]

@kgbias @rdc_south @PriyarajanDMK @UpdatesChennai @sumanthraman @Ahmedshabbir20

[Saieswaran @okdokiees]

@chennaicorp @omjasvinMD @karthickselvaa @DavidManohar7 @Arappor State of platform in MKN Rd, Near Alandur Court, taken over by cow owners, burning causing pollution and spoilt newly laid platforms + Unauthorized, unhygienic eat outs. no action despite many complaints Pl act 🙏

[Saieswaran @okdokiees]

@chennaicorp @omjasvinMD @karthickselvaa @DavidManohar7 @Arappor State of platform in MKN Rd, Near Alandur Court, taken over by cow owners, burning causing pollution and spoilt newly laid platforms + Unauthorized, unhygienic eat outs. no action despite many complaints Pl act 🙏