Chennai Projects:Snippets

A Rs 2,300-crore, 120-km circular high speed transportation corridor will be constructed over the banks of water courses in Chennai city like Adyar river, Buckingham canal, Cooum river and Mambalam canal, and it will be connected to Chennai bypass.
The Tamil Nadu government is also taking necessary action to implement the metro rail project, for which Chennai Metro Rail Ltd has been created and Rs 300 crore provided in the budget.
A desalination plant is being set up at Minjur near Chennai to supply 15 mld of water from June and 100 mld from September this year. Another 100-mld desalination plant is proposed to be set up at Nemmeli on East Coast Road at an estimated cost of Rs 994 crore with financial assistance from the Government of India.