Goings-on around a wall in Mandaveli: residents of TP Scheme Road want CM Vijay to take note of their plight

Subscribed with another email? Logout and Login with that one. Account subscription benefits alongside Premium Stories, Editorials, Opinions and more. Unlock these with Subscription The View From India Looking at World Affairs from the Indian perspective. First Day First Show News and reviews from the world of cinema and streaming. Today's Cache Your download of the top 5 technology stories of the day. Science For All The weekly newsletter from science writers takes the jargon out of science and puts the fun in! Data Point Decoding the headlines with facts, figures, and numbers THEdge At the cutting edge of education and careers Health Matters Ramya Kannan writes to you on getting to good health, and staying there Gender Agenda Stories from beyond the binary. The Hindu On Books Books of the week, reviews, excerpts, new titles and features. Poonga View Residents Welfare Association: when they christened their RWA thus, residents of TP Scheme Road in Mandaveli had in mind categories of “views” diametrically opposite to what they are being treated to. TP Scheme Road is 300 metres long, and one side of the road has a wall, one bounding the Adyar Poonga. It means there are habitations on only one side of the road. A careless count puts it at 50; sparsely populated, one would expect serenity. And nature rearing up on one side meant the eyes had a pleasant object to focus on. Here are the categories of “views” they are actually treated to on a daily basis, as listed by members of Poonga View RWA. Open urination along the wall. Unauthorised parking along the wall. When the TASMAC outlet was on Venkatakrishna Road in Mandaveli, tipplers would turn the space by the wall into an open bar, and some of them would make it a “bed” for a stupefied, post-alcohol slumber. As reported by residents, there would also be other forms of substance abuse behind the illegally parked vehicles, some of them abandoned. Couples would also arrive in cars. Besides, the trees in the Poonga that were expected to give them a pleasant view, would ironically add to the problems. The leaves they shed, along with those shrugged off by the avenue trees on TP Scheme Road, would accumulate by the side of the wall, as parked vehicles would mean Urbaser Summet workers cannot clear the putrefying muck. There would be garbage as well, according to a member of the RWA. Reptiles in the Poonga out for a stroll, well crawl, feel at home in this muck. This road falls in ward 171, Zone 13, and these residents have taken the matter to the councillor, and earlier even escalated it to the previous MLA. And they are still waiting for all these problems to be resolved. This is how a member of Poonga View RWA puts it: “This has been the scene for many years with no action taken by the government even after many complaints to Greater Chennai Corporation. They keep pointing at the other officials for not doing their job. We want to bring this to the notice of CM Vijay so that there will be some action by the new government that could solve our long-pending problems.” Copyright© 2026, THG PUBLISHING PVT LTD. or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. Terms & conditions | Institutional Subscriber Comments have to be in English, and in full sentences. They cannot be abusive or personal. Please abide by our community guidelines for posting your comments. We have migrated to a new commenting platform. If you are already a registered user of The Hindu and logged in, you may continue to engage with our articles. If you do not have an account please register and login to post comments. Users can access their older comments by logging into their accounts on Vuukle.

Goings-on around a wall in Mandaveli: residents of TP Scheme Road want CM Vijay to take note of their plight

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