ECS payment of BSNL phone bill

BSNL website for making online payment of phone bills hasn't been functional for the last few months. So we have had to go to Kelambakkam BSNL cash  counter to make our payment.

Mr Natarajan (F block) who has been paying his phone bill through Electronic Clearing Service (ECS) has helped me get from the Kelambakkam BSNL office a mandate form for phone bill payment through ECS. Fill out details relating to your phone and bank account numbers, get the mandate form endorsed by the bank manager, and post it , with enclosures,  to the BSNL Accounts officer. Enclose with the form 1) a bank cheque leaf (cancelled) and 2) the latest paid telephone bill.

Postal address:
Sr.Accounts Officer (ECS)
BSNL Chennai Telephones
1, NSC Bose Road
Flower Bazaar Exchange
Chennai 600 001

We have e-mailed scanned copy of the BSNL mandate form to PropCare, in case they wish to take printouts for the benefit of BSNL landline subscribers at Mantri Synergy.

Thank you, PropCare

Aadhya with one of the two teaks saved from slow death (see next photo)

Now that they have some breathing space, can we help the teaks recover from withering away ? "We can", says Munisamy of the Mantri Security staff who knows tree-care, and offers to nurse the trees back to health.
We need to thank PropCare - Sivakumar/Balaji - whose intervention spared us residents from taking up arms - a pickaxe to be precise - to undo the damage the Mantri project team had done to the teak at the car-wash bay near STP. When repeated plea to Mantri's for saving the two teaks fell on deaf ear volunteer-residents Memorial Service Group (MSG) announced a pickaxe stir to convey to Mantri's that we are capable of direct action. PropCare took the matter up with the project field staff to get them working on the teak trees. The work was done last evening.
What was planned as a protest move this morning turned out be an occasion for thanks-giving. It was also an occasion for our volunteer group to invite into our fold Sridhar(E Block). He shared his experience in residents community tree-planting in Pune, where Sridhar spent some time before moving to Chennai.Mr Sridhar also referred to Isha's Project GreenHands.

The group that met this morning.
The thing about trees is that they are unlike you and me. Trees don't blame people for letting them down. Maybe it was the weather that kept most of us indoors this morning - warm, and sultry.