egmore elevator

Old people and new visitors are suffering while using the elevator in platform 4 of Chennai Egmore Railway station. Most of them are catching the eversilver top on the paraphet wall of the elevator (which is stationary) and fall back in the steps. Neighbours will have to catch them or cry “catch the rubber handle which is moving”. But these people as they are already nervous don’t hear the cries and fall in the steps upside down. A moving rubber handle which will cover the paraphet wall top fully will be a safer one.

This river water is used as Abisheka Theertham (bathing water for Lord Vishnu) at its starting place (near the cooum village) and at Ilambiankottur (Elumiyankottur) and Thiruvirkolam (Cooum) (70 kilometers from the sea) the sacred Shiva temple is situated almost at the source of the Cooum river with its sparkling, clear waters which shows how much this water is pure and sacred there and how much it is contaminated after it enters the Chennai City.

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01 Sep 2009 04:05:00 AM IST
Chennai low on livable city index

Regarding sanitation, less said the better. One look at the appalling state of the city’s slushy slums, garbage-ridden lanes, stinking waterways, rotting vegetable markets, and un-hygienic fish/meat stalls can speak volumes of the dirt and filth that exists. Open defecation and urination, even by women, that takes place on the city’s roads and streets, river banks, beaches and railway tracks is a shame for any civilised society!