There was a time when Harrington Road was exactly what it was meant to be: a quiet, tree-lined residential avenue, one of Chennai’s older and more established neighbourhood corridors. Families chose to live here because it offered something increasingly rare — space, calm, and a sense of community. Today, that same road tells a very different story. Along an approximately 800-metre stretch now stand eight schools, where there used to be three — three hospitals, three auditoriums, eateries and commercial outlets. Individually, each serves an important purpose. Collectively, however, they have created a level of activity that the road and…
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As all these projects are pertaining to Bangalore South, citizens of that area will be more knowledged about these.
In general, as I go through the list, I find that no where the sanctioned amount has NEITHER fallen SHORT, NOR got EXCESS. That shows that accounts are being manipulated for presentation sake. The life of the projects are not mentioned so as to ascertain the quality. The brand of material is not mentioned to calculate the costs.
Hence this data is just for an EYE WASH and NOT a realistic SCENE.