 Preliminary flood damage is Rs8481 cr.  Loss of Rs cr. has been estimated  Over 60,000 hectares of farmland has been destroyed  CM Jayalalithaa requested PM Narendra Modi to declare the flooding as a “national calamity”  Jayalalithaa has asked central government for financial aid of Rs 2000 cr.

 Road vanished  Water in house  House destroyed  Around 400 have died and over 18 lakh people were shifted to safe place  Colleges, schools and markets were closed  More rain due to low pressure in bay of Bengal

 City recorded a whopping mm of rain in November  On December 1, Chennai has received a record breaking 272 mm of rainfall in 12hrs  The city’s normal rainfall for December stands at 191 mm  Chennai broke over a 100 year old 24 hour rainfall record  On December 10, 1901, Chennai had recorded mm rainfall in a span of 24 hours  Chennai broke monthly rainfall record of December 1910

 New constructions have popped up all round the city like mushroom  New airport is being constructed in Chennai in the basin of Adyan River in Chennai  A bus terminal is being constructed in the flood prone area of Koyambedu  MRTS(Mass rapid transit system) has been constructed over Buckingham canal and Pallikaranai

 Expressways and bypass roads have been constructed in an autocratic manner  No proper drainage of rain water  Many lakes and pond have been replaced by IT Corridor  Engineering colleges and etc. have been constructed over there on the pathways followed by the drainage of water  Automobile and telecom SEZ as well as residential areas are made in low-lying area were lakes

 Pallikaranai marshland in a southern suburb of Chennai, it used to absorb the rainfall that occurred in a area of about 250 square kilometer  Some years ago it was spread in a area of about 50 square kilometer but now it has been reduced to only 4.35 square kilometer

 Two big roads passing through it stopped the flow and drainage of water  This marshland also used to house for animals and birds but now it has been captured by humans  In order to provide basic infrastructure to city, water-reservoir were not used properly and the natural ecosystem was destroyed

 Corporation of Chennai removed Corporation works department joint commissioner Dr. Vijay Pingale for being stringent against the contractors  Before three days, he named contractors who botched up road work in the city and fined them  The recent rains showed the pathetic road works done by contractors  Pingale, fined nine contractors Rs. 2 Crores for building low quality roads

In our eagerness to create we have destroyed the natural safe guards that have been in place for thousands of years and this will be every expensive for us