OLD MAHABALIPURAM ROAD, CHENNAI-CHENGALPATTU: If you live along OMR, you might see 2025 as the year residents quietly set up the systems that are going to make 2026 and beyond very different on this side of the city.
To get inked
Voter IDs first. FOMRRA and Karmayogam Trust spent the year untangling the great SIR mess so thousands of voters did not vanish from the rolls just because somebody mangled an address field. That RWA-by-RWA clean-up now becomes our standing playbook before every election, just in time for the OMR Citizens’ Mandate we are taking to political parties in early 2026.
Everyday hacks
A bus at OMR. | Photo Credit: KARUNAKARAN M
