Pananchalai Street in Adayalampattu village near Maduravoyal has remained unfinished for more than four months, disrupting daily travel for residents, students and office-goers. The road was dug up two years ago for a stormwater drain; residents were promised restoration after drainage work ended. Gravel was laid before the elections, followed by M-sand across about 200 metres during campaigning, but no further work has followed. Rain washes away the M-sand, exposing gravel and creating difficulties and accident risks for two-wheeler riders. Resident Priya said about 100 families live in the locality and the road is difficult to use, including during emergencies. Village panchayat officials attributed the delay to a shortage of bitumen. After work on Perumal Koil Street is completed, they said, a 350-metre-long, 3.5-metre-wide tar road will be laid on Pananchalai Street within two weeks.

Adayalampattu village panchayat dumps waste daily into the Cooum outside MGR University, at Maduravoyal. The Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) later removes it and transports it to Kodungaiyur in North Chennai. Waste is also dumped along service lanes and beneath the National Highways Authority of India’s Chennai bypass. With reservoirs pre-emptied and recent showers increasing Cooum water levels, dumping obstructs flow and garbage mixes with floodwaters, affecting downstream areas up to Napier Bridge. The GCC’s Chennai Rivers Restoration Trust has not built boundary walls along several river stretches from Koyambedu to Maduravoyal, allowing trespassing. Residents warn continued dumping and levelling could lead to waterbody encroachment. Adayalampattu has about 4,000 residents and generates around 10 tonnes of waste daily; it lacks waste segregation, a transfer station and a bio-CNG facility for wet waste.

An order issued by the Municipal Administration and Water Supply department on December 31 proposes bringing Vanagaram and Adayalampattu village panchayats under the Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC). If approved, GCC’s area would increase from 426 to 446 square kilometres, covering a population of 6,704,456. Residents have six weeks to submit objections and suggestions to the department’s Principal Secretary at Fort St. George, Chennai. A Neelankarai Resident Welfare Association member questioned the expansion, saying GCC already faces management challenges and full development in the newly proposed areas could take more than a decade. Neelankarai joined GCC in 2011.

Tamil Nadu’s Municipal Administration and Water Supply Department proposed including Vanagaram and Adayalampattu village panchayats in Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) as part of local-body reorganisation, in an order issued on December 31, 2024. The merger would expand GCC to 442 sq. km and a population of 6,704,456. The government said inclusion would improve quality of life. After reorganisation, wards will be delimited based on factors including electors, area and public amenities. Residents may submit objections to the Principal Secretary, MAWS, Fort St. George, Chennai 600009, within six weeks. Residents sought underground drainage and water-supply lines; flooding took about four days to drain in 2023, and roads need repairs. Residents of areas added to GCC in 2011 questioned the pace of development, citing incomplete stormwater drains and missing underground drainage in CLRI, Kabalishwar Nagar, Khajuraho Gardens and Ranga Reddy Gardens, as well as neglected garbage bins and unattended cables. GCC has not proposed incorporating parts of Tambaram and Avadi, whose expansions occurred within the past 1.5 years.

Port authorities are working with NHAI and the state government to establish a truck parking yard at the entry point of the Chennai Port-Maduravoyal elevated corridor to ease congestion. The four-lane double-decker expressway is 20.6 km long and aims to provide connectivity between the port and the city's western outskirts. The dedicated truck yard will enable vehicles to wait for customs and terminal clearances without blocking the port gates. A formal request for a 10-acre plot was submitted in May 2024. Following a site review in July, a parcel in Adayalampattu revenue village was identified. May inspections by port and NHAI officials found two adjoining plots measuring 8.5 acres and 3.5 acres suitable for the facility. Two-thirds of the identified NHAI land is encroached and the state has been asked to clear the area. Chennai Port has also requested allocation of a Tamil Nadu Minerals Ltd-owned land parcel near the MFL junction for a second extended gate.