What were authorities doing post-2015 floods?: Madras HC raps Chennai Corp

Chief Justice Sanjeeb Banerjee and Justice P D Audikesavalu on Tuesday asked what the Greater Chennai Corporation had done since 2015 to address issues of waterlogging in the city during heavy rains.

Chennai: The Madras High Court on Tuesday came down heavily on the Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) over the severe waterlogging in the city due to incessant rains and asked 'what the authorities were doing post-2015 floods?'

"For half of the year, we are made to cry for water (apparently due to shortage) and for another half we are made to die in water," the court said while entertaining a PIL petition on encroachments on public roads. "Despite plans worth crores of rupees for development, no adequate measures have been taken to prevent inundation in the city during rains," the court further said.