page_title: Chitlapakkam
section_title: Activities and landmarks
hierarchical_section_title: Chitlapakkam / Activities and landmarks
caption_attribution_description: a cinema theatre in chitlapakkam Chennai
context_page_description: Chitlapakkam is a residential locality in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. It is well known for its small, perennial lake and adjoining ecosystems.
context_section_description: While industrial activity has been influenced positively due to the Warehousing Corporation of India's godowns the real growth has come about due to a heightened sense of citizen's participation and civic mindedness. This has happened gradually and in a non linear and participative fashion due to the efforts of various patriotic individuals and associations of persons. In this context the role of the civic body and its representatives need to be lauded since they do take feedback and try to implement the suggestions.A notable association has been the muthulakshminagar welfare association which regularly meets the concerned ministers and public representatives to take up activities specific to the upliftment of chitlapakkam like improvement of water table, waste segregation and preventing burning of waste at the chitlapakkam lake, making efforts to include chitlapakkam in the chembarapakkam water scheme, ensuring more bus routes to operate via chitlapakkam and so on The real estate boom in the locality is due to a confluence of factors like abundant water supply, proximity to the IT companies in OMR & MEPZ, excellent quality of life and proximity to the city. Some of the landmarks in the area include Varadharaja theatre, Chitlapakkam tank, Indira Cotton Mill, MEPZ, Saravana Stores at Chrompet and so on .
  Varadaraja Theatre is just 400m from Sanatorium railway station and GST road.
  " Chitlapakkam Rising " is another interesting youth led social movement : See this article for details : http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/society/when-streets-talk/article7637854.ece
caption: Varadaraja theatre
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