The Ainsley Canal is infested with lot of poisonous snakes. Ainsley canal is a short canal located in Chennai. The canal starts near Villivakkam railway station and connects Otteri Nullah with railway quarters and Integral Coach Factory near Ayanavaram. It runs for a length of about 3.3 km.
It has become highly polluted, with the residents of Pilkington Road, Vasantha Garden, Appathurai Main Road, Palayakaran Street and Madurai Street dumping wastes.
The plight of the canal has not improved though the railways has desilted the canal in year 2006. The residents of Ayanavaram have a long-pending request for a clean Ainsley Canal , which belongs to the Southern Railways.
The canal urgently needs to be desilted and cleaned. The canal carrying untreated sewage is clogged with garbage and weeds. The canal, passes through ICF, Railway Hospital , Ayanavaram and Pananthope Colony and drains into the Otteri Nullah. K. Ramadoss, president of North Chennai Dist Exnora, said that the canal needs to be cleaned and desilted at the earliest.
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