Enclave’, 148-150, Luz Church Road, Mylapore, Chennai - 600 004. Tel: +91 - 44 - 2498 4821 BANGALORE Suite 920, Level 9, Raheja Towers, 26-27, M G Road, Bangalore - 560 001. Tel: +91 - 80 - 6546 2400 COIMBATORE BB1, Park Avenue, # 48, Race Course Road, Coimbatore - 641018. Tel: +91 - 422 – 6552921 EMAIL info@altacit.com

1. CHENNAI’S GREEN COVER
CHENNAI
3rd Floor, ‘Creative Enclave’,
148-150, Luz Church Road,
Mylapore,
Chennai - 600 004.
Tel: +91 - 44 - 2498 4821
BANGALORE
Suite 920, Level 9,
Raheja Towers,
26-27, M G Road,
Bangalore - 560 001.
Tel: +91 - 80 - 6546 2400
COIMBATORE
BB1, Park Avenue,
# 48, Race Course Road,
Coimbatore - 641018.
Tel: +91 - 422 – 6552921
EMAIL
info@altacit.com
WEBSITE
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By
Parvathi V

2. What does it Mean?
CHENNAI
3rd Floor, ‘Creative Enclave’,
148-150, Luz Church Road,
Mylapore,
Chennai - 600 004.
Tel: +91 - 44 - 2498 4821
BANGALORE
Suite 920, Level 9,
Raheja Towers,
26-27, M G Road,
Bangalore - 560 001.
Tel: +91 - 80 - 6546 2400
COIMBATORE
BB1, Park Avenue,
# 48, Race Course Road,
Coimbatore - 641018.
Tel: +91 - 422 – 6552921
• If you look out of the window of a plane as it
circles Chennai, what you see, is only a few
patches of solid green
• We see trees being cut to broaden up roads,
major is the construction of apartments
companies and for varied reasons, sometimes
due to rain and soil erosion . This cannot be
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stopped but one fell tree MUST be replaced
by two or more somewhere nearby.

3. NGC : NO GREEN COVER
CHENNAI
3rd Floor, ‘Creative Enclave’,
148-150, Luz Church Road,
Mylapore,
Chennai - 600 004.
Tel: +91 - 44 - 2498 4821
•
up to 99 per cent of its green cover in some parts. The
BANGALORE
built-up area in the city nearly doubled in that short
Suite 920, Level 9,
Raheja Towers,
26-27, M G Road,
Bangalore - 560 001.
Tel: +91 - 80 - 6546 2400
COIMBATORE
BB1, Park Avenue,
# 48, Race Course Road,
Coimbatore - 641018.
Tel: +91 - 422 – 6552921
Especially between 1997 and 2001, when the city lost
period,
•
Over
the
years
we
have
lost
many
trees
to
development.”
•
The environmental consequences of the reduction in
green cover has been wide ranging – increase in air
pollution, ground water depletion, frequent flooding
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during the monsoon and an overall rise in temperature
in the city as a result of concretisation.

4. Concrete
CHENNAI
3rd Floor, ‘Creative Enclave’,
148-150, Luz Church Road,
Mylapore,
Chennai - 600 004.
Tel: +91 - 44 - 2498 4821
BANGALORE
Suite 920, Level 9,
Raheja Towers,
26-27, M G Road,
Bangalore - 560 001.
Tel: +91 - 80 - 6546 2400
COIMBATORE
BB1, Park Avenue,
# 48, Race Course Road,
Coimbatore - 641018.
Tel: +91 - 422 – 6552921
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Horror
Replaces Green Cover
In Chennai

5. CONT….
CHENNAI
3rd Floor, ‘Creative Enclave’,
148-150, Luz Church Road,
Mylapore,
Chennai - 600 004.
Tel: +91 - 44 - 2498 4821
BANGALORE
Suite 920, Level 9,
Raheja Towers,
26-27, M G Road,
Bangalore - 560 001.
Tel: +91 - 80 - 6546 2400
COIMBATORE
BB1, Park Avenue,
# 48, Race Course Road,
Coimbatore - 641018.
Tel: +91 - 422 – 6552921
EMAIL
info@altacit.com
WEBSITE
www.altacit.com
• The city's skyline is rapidly changing, with old
bungalows making way for concrete giants
dressed in glass and steel, green canopies
replaced by anonymous grey structures,
open playgrounds taken over by huge
apartment complexes. Chennai Patrol's
Quality Of Life Survey showed that residents
in all the 200 wards are concerned about
trees being cut down in the name of
development. They say reckless felling of
trees by developers has resulted in a loss of
green cover.

6. CONT…
CHENNAI
3rd Floor, ‘Creative Enclave’,
148-150, Luz Church Road,
Mylapore,
Chennai - 600 004.
Tel: +91 - 44 - 2498 4821
BANGALORE
Suite 920, Level 9,
Raheja Towers,
26-27, M G Road,
Bangalore - 560 001.
Tel: +91 - 80 - 6546 2400
COIMBATORE
BB1, Park Avenue,
# 48, Race Course Road,
Coimbatore - 641018.
Tel: +91 - 422 – 6552921
EMAIL
info@altacit.com
WEBSITE
www.altacit.com
• Air quality in the city has markedly deteriorated
in the past decade. “More young children are
showing asthmatic symptoms than ever before.
Studies show that residents of the Chennai
Metropolitan Area (CMA) would collectively
breathe in over 4,000 lakh kg of vehicular
emission annually if drastic improvements are
not made. The green cover dwindled in the city
due to rapid and unplanned urbanisation. “Open
spaces came down as the built-up area
increased

7. Metro rail running down Chennai’s green
cover
CHENNAI
3rd Floor, ‘Creative Enclave’,
148-150, Luz Church Road,
Mylapore,
Chennai - 600 004.
Tel: +91 - 44 - 2498 4821
BANGALORE
Suite 920, Level 9,
Raheja Towers,
26-27, M G Road,
Bangalore - 560 001.
Tel: +91 - 80 - 6546 2400
COIMBATORE
BB1, Park Avenue,
# 48, Race Course Road,
Coimbatore - 641018.
Tel: +91 - 422 – 6552921
EMAIL
info@altacit.com
WEBSITE
www.altacit.com

8. CONT…
CHENNAI
3rd Floor, ‘Creative Enclave’,
148-150, Luz Church Road,
Mylapore,
Chennai - 600 004.
Tel: +91 - 44 - 2498 4821
BANGALORE
Suite 920, Level 9,
Raheja Towers,
26-27, M G Road,
Bangalore - 560 001.
Tel: +91 - 80 - 6546 2400
COIMBATORE
BB1, Park Avenue,
# 48, Race Course Road,
Coimbatore - 641018.
Tel: +91 - 422 – 6552921
EMAIL
info@altacit.com
WEBSITE
www.altacit.com
• The city’s trees are giving way to metro rail as
about 385 trees will be felled for the on-going
construction.
• Seventy eight trees from the stretch between
Washermanpet station and Chennai Airport
and 307 from Chennai Fort to St. Thomas
Mount are being felled. But the Chennai Metro
Rail Limited (CMRL) claims to have planted
over 15,000 saplings and trees last year.
• “Not just saplings, we have planted trees after
they reached primary growth

9. CONT…
CHENNAI
3rd Floor, ‘Creative Enclave’,
148-150, Luz Church Road,
Mylapore,
Chennai - 600 004.
Tel: +91 - 44 - 2498 4821
•
BANGALORE
Suite 920, Level 9,
Raheja Towers,
26-27, M G Road,
Bangalore - 560 001.
Tel: +91 - 80 - 6546 2400
COIMBATORE
•
BB1, Park Avenue,
# 48, Race Course Road,
Coimbatore - 641018.
Tel: +91 - 422 – 6552921
•
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Trees like neem, banyan, and tamarind are the ones
that are being felled in larger numbers for the project.
Despite their slow growth, they contribute greatly to
their habitat. Thus, destroying them harms the miniecosystem
According to a report by RITES Ltd., a Government of
India enterprise, the loss of 385 trees means that
around 18,865 kg of oxygen will be reduced, an
amount that will be needed for 104 people in a year’s
time.
“Most of the trees felled are almost as old as 50. Trying
to replace them with saplings does not compensate for
the loss incurred. If there was any impact assessment
done for this project, it has to be shared with the public

10. How to regain green cover in
Chennai?
CHENNAI
3rd Floor, ‘Creative Enclave’,
148-150, Luz Church Road,
Mylapore,
Chennai - 600 004.
Tel: +91 - 44 - 2498 4821
BANGALORE
Suite 920, Level 9,
Raheja Towers,
26-27, M G Road,
Bangalore - 560 001.
Tel: +91 - 80 - 6546 2400
COIMBATORE
BB1, Park Avenue,
# 48, Race Course Road,
Coimbatore - 641018.
Tel: +91 - 422 – 6552921
EMAIL
info@altacit.com
WEBSITE
www.altacit.com

11. CONT…
CHENNAI
3rd Floor, ‘Creative Enclave’,
148-150, Luz Church Road,
Mylapore,
Chennai - 600 004.
Tel: +91 - 44 - 2498 4821
BANGALORE
Suite 920, Level 9,
Raheja Towers,
26-27, M G Road,
Bangalore - 560 001.
Tel: +91 - 80 - 6546 2400
COIMBATORE
BB1, Park Avenue,
# 48, Race Course Road,
Coimbatore - 641018.
Tel: +91 - 422 – 6552921
EMAIL
info@altacit.com
WEBSITE
www.altacit.com

12. CONT…
CHENNAI
3rd Floor, ‘Creative Enclave’,
•
148-150, Luz Church Road,
Mylapore,
Chennai - 600 004.
Tel: +91 - 44 - 2498 4821
BANGALORE
Suite 920, Level 9,
Raheja Towers,
26-27, M G Road,
Bangalore - 560 001.
Tel: +91 - 80 - 6546 2400
COIMBATORE
BB1, Park Avenue,
# 48, Race Course Road,
Coimbatore - 641018.
Tel: +91 - 422 – 6552921
EMAIL
info@altacit.com
WEBSITE
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•
The city holds the dubious distinction of being one of the
least green metros in the country. With a green cover
spread over just 9.5 per cent of its geographic area,
Chennai's dream of achieving the goal of 33 per cent urban
forest cover by 2012, as envisaged in the National Forest
Policy (1988), might remain simply a pipe dream.
The green cover in the city has increased by over 25 per
cent in last ten years. A study conducted by the
Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology using satellite
imagery has shown an increase in the vegetation cover from
33 sq km in the year 2000 to 44 sq km in 2010. But experts
say there is scope for much more. Effective planning and
planned development against the present haphazard
development can increase the cover in near future.

13. Government’s Interest?
CHENNAI
3rd Floor, ‘Creative Enclave’,
148-150, Luz Church Road,
Mylapore,
Chennai - 600 004.
Tel: +91 - 44 - 2498 4821
BANGALORE
Suite 920, Level 9,
Raheja Towers,
26-27, M G Road,
Bangalore - 560 001.
Tel: +91 - 80 - 6546 2400
COIMBATORE
BB1, Park Avenue,
# 48, Race Course Road,
Coimbatore - 641018.
Tel: +91 - 422 – 6552921
EMAIL
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Chennai corporation decides to increase city’s green
cover
• At present, the city has a green cover of only 5.5%
and this initiative is expected to increase it to 11%
this year and is likely to go up to 25% in three
years.

14. CONT…
CHENNAI
3rd Floor, ‘Creative Enclave’,
148-150, Luz Church Road,
Mylapore,
Chennai - 600 004.
Tel: +91 - 44 - 2498 4821
BANGALORE
Suite 920, Level 9,
Raheja Towers,
26-27, M G Road,
Bangalore - 560 001.
Tel: +91 - 80 - 6546 2400
COIMBATORE
BB1, Park Avenue,
# 48, Race Course Road,
Coimbatore - 641018.
Tel: +91 - 422 – 6552921
EMAIL
info@altacit.com
WEBSITE
www.altacit.com
What are the steps to increase city green cover?
• Mayor Saidai Duraisamy said that 20 lakh
palmyra trees would be planted alongside
waterways in the city. He also added saying, work
on planting of 6.5 lakh tress will start shortly. This
work is expected to be complete by March 2014.
• Residents who are interested in planting these
trees may approach the corporation offices for
free saplings
• It's part of our efforts to fight global warming.

15. As a Resident what
should we do?
CHENNAI
3rd Floor, ‘Creative Enclave’,
148-150, Luz Church Road,
Mylapore,
Chennai - 600 004.
Tel: +91 - 44 - 2498 4821
BANGALORE
Suite 920, Level 9,
Raheja Towers,
26-27, M G Road,
Bangalore - 560 001.
Tel: +91 - 80 - 6546 2400
COIMBATORE
BB1, Park Avenue,
# 48, Race Course Road,
Coimbatore - 641018.
Tel: +91 - 422 – 6552921
EMAIL
info@altacit.com
WEBSITE
www.altacit.com
• We should keep in mind while constructing
our house , have some place to grow the
plants which are very useful for ourselves &
environment. Having personally planted ,
instead of making a big fuss about cutting
trees, people must make a fuss about planting
trees.

16. CONT….
CHENNAI
3rd Floor, ‘Creative Enclave’,
148-150, Luz Church Road,
Mylapore,
Chennai - 600 004.
Tel: +91 - 44 - 2498 4821
BANGALORE
Suite 920, Level 9,
Raheja Towers,
26-27, M G Road,
Bangalore - 560 001.
Tel: +91 - 80 - 6546 2400
COIMBATORE
BB1, Park Avenue,
# 48, Race Course Road,
Coimbatore - 641018.
Tel: +91 - 422 – 6552921
EMAIL
info@altacit.com
WEBSITE
www.altacit.com
• At present, housing projects in the country
are
certified
or
pre-certified
green.
Considering that the Indian Green Building
Council (IGBC) launched IGBC Green
Homes, a rating system for the residential
sector,
• Green Evolution Architectural Consultancy thinks
builders should look beyond green ratings as a
marketing tool and really focus on offering hugely
eco-friendly products.

17. CONCLUSION
CHENNAI
3rd Floor, ‘Creative Enclave’,
148-150, Luz Church Road,
Mylapore,
Chennai - 600 004.
Tel: +91 - 44 - 2498 4821
BANGALORE
Suite 920, Level 9,
Raheja Towers,
26-27, M G Road,
Bangalore - 560 001.
Tel: +91 - 80 - 6546 2400
COIMBATORE
BB1, Park Avenue,
# 48, Race Course Road,
Coimbatore - 641018.
Tel: +91 - 422 – 6552921
EMAIL
info@altacit.com
WEBSITE
www.altacit.com
• Mahindra Lifespaces is printing a ‘green
manual’ for its buyers. After the units are
handed over, the manuals are meant to
help residents stay green by contributing to
the initiatives already in place and by
developing creative ways to get greener
still.
• Now a day’s all the project is trying to ensure
that, If builders and architects continue to
work together for free, healthy spaces,
Chennai for one could easily lead the country
in green constructions.

18. T hank you
CHENNAI
3rd Floor, ‘Creative Enclave’,
148-150, Luz Church Road,
Mylapore,
Chennai - 600 004.
Tel: +91 - 44 - 2498 4821
BANGALORE
Suite 920, Level 9,
Raheja Towers,
26-27, M G Road,
Bangalore - 560 001.
Tel: +91 - 80 - 6546 2400
COIMBATORE
BB1, Park Avenue,
# 48, Race Course Road,
Coimbatore - 641018.
Tel: +91 - 422 – 6552921
EMAIL
info@altacit.com
WEBSITE
www.altacit.com