Foot overbridge relocated on OMR
The Hindu
Sometimes, a new skill is absolutely unnecessary to shore up a career. All it takes is dusting off an almost-atrophied old skill and realigning it with new and emerging demands. Extrapolating that career insight to a physical environment, one involving a busy junction and pedestrians crossing it, sometimes all it takes is rooting out an old, metal FOB from the space where it lacked patronage and pegging it where it would attract just that by the dozens. A relocation of this kind just happened on Old Mahabalipuram Road. A foot overbridge on ECR Link Road (between Sholinganallur and Akkarai) that failed to make an impact ever since it was installed, being given an ice-cold shoulder by pedestrians, has been given a whole new key result area. It has to serve pedestrians around the hugely busy Sholinganallur junction that has been unrecognisably rejigged for Metro Rail work. On July 30, 2025, L&T workers engaged in Metro Rail work were attending to the finer elements of the FOB installation such as light fitting near the Sholinganallur junction.

On December 23, the newly elected office bearers of the Anna Nagar Towers Club, led by its president ‘Purasai’ B. Ranganathan, who is a former MLA, met with Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. K. Stalin and conveyed their greetings. According to a press release, besides, ‘Purasai’ B. Ranganathan, the Anna Nagar Towers Club delegation that met Stalin at Anna Arivalayam, the DMK Party headquarters, included vice-president R. Sivakumar, secretary R. Muralibabu, joint secretary D. Manojkumar, treasurer K. Jayachandran and executive committee members N. D. Avinash, K. Kumar, N. R. Madhurakavi, K. Mohan, U. Niranjan, S. Parthasarathi, K. Rajasekar, S. Rajasekar, M. S. Ramesh, R. Satheesh, N. C. Venkatesan and K. Yuvaraj. Karthik Mohan, deputy secretary of DMK’s Information Technology Wing, was present on the occasion.












