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D. Bhaskar Babu has been a nonmigratory of Sidco Nagar successful Villivakkam for astir 60 years. A witnesser to the phenomenal translation the locality has undergone implicit the years, helium gives america a glimpse into its past.
The bustling Villivakkam locality today, with its engaged railway presumption and the Integral Coach Factory (ICF), was erstwhile a quiescent colony with hardly immoderate civic amenities. It was administered by a panchayat national and had lone mud roads.
Villivakkam has adjacent links to the railways, with its railway presumption being a salient 1 connected the occidental section. It was earlier projected to beryllium converted into a terminal owing to its proximity to the ICF.
Old-timers inactive retrieve the immense Villivakkam lake, which erstwhile served arsenic a lifeline for residents but has since been reduced to a pond. They besides callback hundreds of motorists waiting to transverse the railway level crossing astatine the Padi junction until a decennary ago. With the operation of the Padi flyover, question clip from Villivakkam to Pattravakkam and Ambattur has reduced significantly. The flyover besides led to the improvement of respective residential areas adjacent the Villivakkam railway station, Mr. Babu says.
SIDCO Nagar, the largest locality successful Villivakkam with astir 99 streets, erstwhile had lone basal facilities specified arsenic station offices and banks. It has present go a salient country with respective commercialized establishments, helium adds.
(as told to R. Srikanth)
