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CHENNAI: “For half of the year we are made to cry for water and for the other half we are made to die in water,” Madras high court remarked on Tuesday, while pulling up the Greater Chennai Corporation for its failure to take adequate measures to prevent inundation in the city.
The first bench of Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice P D Audikesavalu wondered as to what the authorities were doing for the past five years after 2015 deluge.
The bench also warned that it would be constrained to initiate suo motu proceedings if the situation was not brought under control.
The court made the observations while hearing a PIL seeking direction to the commissioner of Chennai corporation to take appropriate action to remove the roadside park at Reddikuppam road in Chennai. Dismissing the plea, the court said: “This is utterly a frivolous petition requiring the court to monitor what the width of a road should be or what the width of the pavement or walkway along the road should be.”
Similarly, while disposing of another PIL alleging encroachment of a waterbody, the court said: “It may not be out of context to record that the ongoing rains and the floods in and around Chennai and elsewhere in the state should be a lesson for the government officials to take immediate action against any person attempting to encroach into any waterbody or the path meant for flowing water during the rainy reason.”
“Tamil Nadu is not a backward state. It is the most advanced state in many parameters. This cannot be the situation in such a state,” the court added.

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