Chennai legislators to be briefed on expansion

By G Saravanan

Published in The New Indian Express, Chennai on July 22, 2011:

Source:http://expressbuzz.com/cities/chennai/chennai-legislators-to-be-briefed-on-expansion/296579.html

CHENNAI: Chennai Corporation officials will hold a meeting with legislators representing areas in the city to discuss city expansion plans.

Corporation Commissioner D Karthikeyan on Wednesday held talks with representatives of 42 local bodies that would be annexed during the expansion.Officials collected specific inputs on garbage collection and disposal, and the financial position in the 42 local bodies, sources told Express. 

The sources said, a detailed report would be sumbitted to the state government. Besides the 16 MLAs, elected from the existing Chennai Corporation limits, another seven MLAs from areas to be annexed: Alandur, Shozhinganallur, Maduravoyal, Ambattur, Madhavaram, Thiruvottiyur and Ponneri, would take part in the briefing.The plan calls for a village panchayat namely Idayanchavadi in Minjur limit which would be the Corporation's entry point from the north. Uthandi village panchayat on the ECR would be its southern boundary.

Municipalities in the north Kathivakkam, Thiruvottiyur and Manali, and those in the west Madhavaram, Ambattur, Maduravoyal, Valsaravakkam and Alandur and UllagaramPuzhuthivakkam in the south were included in the city limit.