🚨 Ambattur Bus Terminus To Get Facelift By Year-End

The project, estimated to cost around 12 crore, will involve building more than 20 bus bays.

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🚨 Chennai leads Bengaluru, Hyderabad in offshore MNC office leasing

🔸MNCs leased 7 million square feet of office space in Chennai in CY2003 compared with 6.1 million sq. ft in Hyderabad and 5.6 million sq. ft in Bengaluru.

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🚨 Chennai Metro Rail Limited likely to hike parking fee for non-commuters in stations soon

🔸This is being done since the parking spaces in stations, such as Chennai Airport, Thirumangalam, and Anna Nagar East, fill up fast during peak hours.

📍Club CSK, Navalur

📸 mavic.dronacharya

#Chennai #StreetsofChennai #IPL #CSK #ChennaiSuperKings #ClubCSK

🚨 No new IIT or IIM has been opened in the last ten years in Tamil Nadu

#IIM #Coimbatore #LokSabhaElections2024 #TamilNadu

🚈 India's Metro Rail Network - 2023 Ridership

🔸Delhi - 203.23 Crore
🔸Bengaluru - 22.26 Crore
🔸Hyderabad - 10.9 Crore
🔸Chennai - 9.11 Crore
🔸Mumbai - 8.39 Crore
🔸Kochi - 3.12 Crore

India's metro rail systems have seen a 3x ridership increase in 2023. #MetroRail #Infra

No takers for nearly 7,000 flats in Ennore.

In 2017, the AIADMK govt built, under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana Scheme, 6,877 flats for economically weaker sections (EWS). 7 years on, not one of the flats in the colony, opposite the Ennore Thermal Power Station, is occupied.

🚈 Chennai Metro Monthly Ridership - 2024

January - 84.63 lakh
February - 86.15 lakh
March - 86.82 lakh

🔸The average daily ridership is yet to reach the projected 7 lakh.

#CMRL #Chennai #ChennaiMetro #NammaChennai #StreetsofChennai

🎬 IMAX & PLF Screen Sizes in India

🔸Palazzo and Luxe Imax are the only two Imax screens in India with 425+ seating capacity.

Since 2018, Chennai Metro Rail has received the lowest funding from the Central Government.

🔸Mumbai, Nagpur and Pune - ₹28,877 Cr
🔸Bengaluru - ₹19,236 Cr
🔸Ahmedabad and Surat - ₹15,218 Cr
🔸Lucknow, Kanpur and Agra - ₹12,919 Cr
🔸Chennai - ₹3,273.55 Cr

#ChennaiMetro #CMRL #Chennai

Electoral Bonds - Tamil Nadu [2019-2024]

Top Donors - DMK
🔸Future Gaming - ₹509 Crore
🔸Megha Engineering - ₹105 Crore
🔸India Cements - ₹14 Crore
🔸Sun TV - ₹10 Crore

Top Donors - ADMK
🔸Chennai Super Kings - ₹5 Crore
🔸Lakshmi Machine Works - ₹1 Crore

#ElectoralBonds

🚇 Metrorail tunneling in busy areas to start in six months.

🔸Royapettah
🔸R K Salai

Tunneling is underway in Madhavaram, Aynavaram, Chetpet, and Greenways Road.

Elevated sections of Phase II will be ready in 2025/26 & the underground sections will be ready in 2027/28.

🚇 Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL) recorded an impressive daily average of 2.66 lakh passengers, totaling a remarkable 9.11 crore passengers in 2023.

2023 - 9.11 Cr
2022 - 6.09 Cr
2021 - 2.53 Cr
2020 - 1.18 Cr
2019 - 3.28 Cr
2015 to 2018 - 2.8 Cr

#CMRL #Chennai #ChennaiMetro

🔸 Devi Cinemas acquired by PVR INOX.

🔸 Udhayam Complex to be closed soon. Casagrand to develop luxury residential apartments at the site.

#Chennai #NammaChennai #DeviCinemas #PVRInox #UdhayamCinemas #Casagrand

🚈 CMRL Monthly Ridership - 2022 vs 2023 (in lakhs)

Jan - 66.07
Feb - 63.69
Mar - 69.99
Apr - 66.85
May - 72.68
Jun - 74.06
July - 82.53
Aug - 85.89
Sep - 84.37
Oct - 85.5
Nov - 80.01
Dec - 79.34

#Chennai #Metro #India #CMRL #Infra #ChennaiMetro

🚨 North Chennai's skyline is set to change.

At least 8 high-rise residential complexes will come up in Perambur, Sembium, Madhuravoyal, Korattur, Aynavaram, Madhavaram and Surapet in the next 5 years.

🚨 T.N. government approves the plan to buy 28 six-coach trains at a cost of ₹2,820.90 crore for Chennai Metro Rail’s phase I (including the extension) with the assistance of multilateral funding agencies to meet future demand owing to increasing patronage.

🚈 CMRL Monthly Ridership - 2022 vs 2023 (in lakhs)

Jan - 66.07
Feb - 63.69
Mar - 69.99
Apr - 66.85
May - 72.68
Jun - 74.06
July - 82.53

July 28, 2023 recorded the highest inflow with 3.08 lakh passengers.