Jeeva Nagar now on Youtube

Thanks to the slow progress on civic matters, Jeeva Nagar has now perhaps become one of the first town panchayat layouts to have a short movie on Youtube, titles, credits and all. Ironically, the property value is rising all the time. A major transaction has taken place in the layout which indicates that it may witness another apartment block coming up.

Four apartments on the Eastern side are already at an advanced stage of completion. Catch a glimpse of this in the video below, in the first half (the first floor structure with brickwork). Also notice the few houses that are already there.

The Mangadu Town Panchayat has not provided the necessary road infrastructure. The Kattupakkam Panchayat has also not completed its road laying work, leaving costly granite jelly stones exposed to the elements.

See the video here:



As the Mangadu Town Panchayat and the CMDA continue to drag their feet, they will find themselves having a more and more visible -- and unflattering -- presence on the Internet.

Jeeva Nagar in The Hindu's Property Plus supplement

The Hindu's Property Plus supplement carries a write-up today on the use of the Right to Information Act to get information about Jeeva Nagar.

Read it here.

We will soon be featuring videos of the layout, to give the outside world a sense of what is happening there.

Updates for the last several weeks

It has been a while since we updated the blog. In the last few months, work on the single road that the Mangadu Town Panchayat has agreed to lay has begun. Two more houses have been completed and one family has moved in.

The most recent concerns surround the rainwater stagnation that has resulted from the rains. Many plots apparently remain cut-off now, but we believe that this situation will soon change.

One of the big agglomerations of plots is said to have changed hands and we may expect an apartment complex coming up at the site. This is good news, as it will bring more people to the locality and add to social cohesion and safety, besides giving a demand push for services. Already, a small apartment complex is under construction in the layout.

The kutcha road leading to the Poonamallee - Mount road remains a sticking point, as its status is not known. The Mangadu panchayat had conveyed in reply to an RTI petition that it comes under the Kattupakkam panchayat.

Keep writing letters to the editor in major newspapers and demand more civic services.