
Over 800 abandoned vehicles removed from roadsides since August 2023: GCC
The Hindu
Greater Chennai Corporation and Police remove 816 abandoned vehicles obstructing traffic, plan to auction scrapped vehicles.
Since August 2023, the Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) and Greater Chennai Police have removed 816 abandoned vehicles that were obstructing traffic on the roads in the city. Of these, 85 cars were recently removed from three locations. The GCC plans to auction off the scrapped vehicles. Of the 1,315 abandoned vehicles identified by the GCC, 338 were removed by its owners, and 393 by the civic body. “People are advised to remove their abandoned vehicles to avoid obstructing traffic. Those not removed by the owners will be cleared by the GCC,” the civic body said in a press release.

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.












