The Government of Tamil Nadu has requested support from ADB for the proposed Integrated Urban Flood Management for the Chennai-Kosasthalaiyar Basin Project to support the Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) in Tamil Nadu to increase its resilience to extreme weather events by (i) improving urban flood protection infrastructure while recharging groundwater, (ii) enhancing urban flood preparedness of GCC and communities, and (iii) establishing measures for sustaining operation
and maintenance of stormwater drainage systems in GCC.
We have been engaged to address many of the root causes of floods in Chennai through the construction of flood management assets in the Kosasthalaiyar basin, facilitating GCC and strengthening the capacity of the GCC, and aim to identify the gaps in GCC’s capacity and strengthen it through this project to ensure sustainability of the investments.