CHENNAI: The football team maintained by the Vyasarpadi-based Slum Children Sports Talent Education Development Society (SCSTEDS) has earned a deserving promotion. It will now participate in t ...

CHENNAI: Agreeing with the Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board's submission that it would construct tenements after evicting encroachers from Moorthingar Nagar in Vyasarpadi, the Madras high court has ...

The Vysarpadi slums are located in a low-lying area of Chennai city and lack proper housing, electricity, safe water, sanitation, and drainage - an environment that is definitely not conducive for ...

CHENNAI: The Chennai Corporation’s only playground in Ward 32 (Vyasarpadi South), home to several budding footballers from the Vyasarpadi slums who have represe ...

But Vyasarpadi is known to the Brazil of Tamil Nadu. G Paramasivan, football coach and national player, elaborates, “The favourite game of the young and the old here is football.

The Soccer for Children Rights tournament, organised by Child Rights and You (CRY) on Saturday, seemed at first glance a match between unequal teams — youth from Vyasarpadi slums against big ...

In the year 2000, the Standard X pass percentage of children in the slums around Vyasarpadi was negligible. Today, several youngsters in the area go to college; some have even gone on to get a ...

K P Anand, a resident, said, “Every morning, a queue of over 30 to 40 people forms in front of elevator number 6, making the area crowded and the lift overloaded.