Resilient Chennai: Project to protect city’s green cover, waterbodies

He also added that their goal is to make Chennai the most liveable city in the country and resilience strategy would help them achieve that.

Resilient Chennai is the first urban resilience strategy for a fourth most populous metro city and second city in the country to get committed to building urban resilience in India. The aim of Resilient Chennai is to ensure that residents of Chennai and their infrastructures are offered resilience. It is future planning to make the city get equipped to future shocks and calamities like floods, waste management and rampant urbanisation.

“Resilient Chennai is the culmination of two years of work to understand this city’s challenges, create a roadmap to multi-benefit solutions and come to grips with a future that will be hard to predict. This strategy attempts to adapt Chennai for climate change” said Lauren Sorkin, Managing Director of 100 Resilient Cities, Asia Pacific. She also emphasised on the flood and drought prone city’s need for nsuch a project.

“Resilient Chennai envisions a city that revives our deep historical relationship with water and preserves our water bodies as an integral part of our urban fabric. It aims to advance a vision for the city that embraces its vulnerable communities and treats them as key stakeholders in resilience building” said Krishna Mohan Ramachandran, Chief Resilience Officer, Chennai.