Slums in Chennai Slums in Chennai Chennai is the capital city of the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu and is the fourth largest metropolitan city in the country. A total of 29% of Chennai population resided in slums as of 2011. The state government of Tamil Nadu has established a Slum clearance Board, with a minister heading it. According to the 2011 slum population Survey of India, 31% of Chennaities were living in slums. It is second in the list among Mumbai (40%) and Kolkata (30%). The other big cities New Delhi had 15% and Bangalore had 9% people residing in the
History of Tamil Nadu Tamil political parties. They exerted pressure on the Indian government to intercede with the Sri Lankan government on behalf of the Sri Lankan Tamilians. However, LTTE lost much of its support from Tamil Nadu following the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi on 21 May 1991 by an operative from Sri Lanka for the former prime minister's role in sending Indian peacekeepers to Sri Lanka to disarm the LTTE. The east coast of Tamil Nadu was one of the areas affected by the Indian Ocean earthquake of 2004, during which almost 8000 people died in the disaster. The sixth most populous state