Chief Minister M.K. Stalin held an urgent meeting with Chief Secretary V. Irai Anbu and state Director General of Police, C. Sylendra Babu to receive an on-the-spot report on the preparations being taken to counter the heavy rains and possible water inundation in the low lying areas of the city.Meanwhile, environmentalists have said that the filling of paddy fields and other sources of water bodies with soil and constructing huge buildings have led to such a situation for Chennai city.Sri Murugan, a green activist for the NGO Thanal, working on climate change and study of mangroves, told IANS: “Chennai is bearing the brunt of the greed of our politicians who had given sanctions for filling paddy fields and other water sources with soil and indulged in heavy constructions. Poor people who live in huts and other residential accommodations are facing the brunt of nature’s fury.”
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