Amenities
A combined court complex was inaugurated near GST road opposite to MEPZ. This complex has both the Munsiff and Sessions court within the same building, thus the Magistrate court at East Tambaram and Munsiff court at West Tambaram is now under a single building. Taluk Legal Services Authority, to render free legal services to the poor and needy and also to create legal awareness, is functioning at the Tambaram Civil Court.
Tambaram municipality, however, does not have a common under ground drainage system (UGD). A 1060 million UGD project has been commissioned but the residents' welfare associations has raised objections to sewage pumping station coming up in a 9,600-sq ft park in Amal Nagar in West Tambaram, filing petitions at the Madras High Court.
The most famous road in West Tambaram is the Shanmugam Road which is one of the busiest roads in the city. Tambaram has famous hospitals and diagnostic centres like Hindu Mission Hospital, Deepam Hospital, Philips Hospital, AG Hospital, VN Hospital etc. It had three theatres called MR on the main road, National slightly off the main road till 1972, and the biggest of the three named Vidhya Theatre. East Tambaram (Selaiyur) and West Tambaram each have a police station.
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