It’s been a year since volunteers of Lions Club of Tambaram Sanatorium and Tambaram Makkal Kuzhu, a youth organisation committed to protecting waterbodies and preventing arbitrary cutting of trees, started cleaning the Puthuthangal Eri, off Mudichur Road, in a phased manner. Residents of Old State Bank Colony, Raj Mohan Nagar and Lakshmipuram Extension are also involved in the campaign. In the second phase of the clean-up drive, the team hired a team of workers from Tiruvannamalai to remove water hyacinths from the lake. Raj, president, Lakshmipuram Extension Welfare Association (LEWA), says. They have demanded that bunds be formed on Mullai Nagar and Kannadapalayam sides of the lake.

Source: The Hindu September 01, 2017 12:11 UTC