Six activities taken up under the Smart City Mission will be finished for the current month that would bring about improving groundwater encouragement and advancement of clean energy, the authorities guaranteed.
The investments incorporate reclamation of 35 waterbodies, 15 sanctuary tanks, pedestrianized boulevards, solar housetop boards, and road stops. Work on reclamation of 85% of the 32 waterbodies has been finished at an expected expense of ₹5.85 crore.
Utilizing Smart City reserves, the Greater Chennai Corporation initiated the procedure a year ago and the work is about to finish before the current month, authorities announced. Over 90% of work has been finished on the reclamation of sanctuary tanks in 15 areas. The work in Prasanna Venkatesa Perumal and Peyazhvar sanctuary, Saidapet, was postponed inferable from traffic police confinements, community authorities stated.
Solar-powered boards on rooftops have been introduced in 87% of the 662 structures of the Chennai Corporation, at a scale of ₹24 crore. The Corporation actualized this so it would possess the benefits. The task was deferred as sustainable power source administration organizations that dismissed the public-private partnership(PPP), indicating the little solar-based power limit of Corporation structures.
A several of real structures, for example, Ripon Buildings and Communicable Diseases Hospital have a higher solar power limit across the advancement. Moreover, a large portion of the structures has a solar-power limit of 1-12 KW.
Solar-powered rooftop ventures have been dispatched in excess of 100 structures in each zone of Tiruvottiyur, Tondiarpet, Royapuram, Thiru-Vi-Ka Nagar, Teynampet, Kodambakam, and Alandur. Also, deal with 90% of the pedestrianized streets at 23 areas have been perfected at ₹19 crore.