The proverbial light at the end of the tunnel in the realm of disaster management may just about begin to show up for Tamil Nadu's capital city of Chennai-, the gateway to South India located along the Bay of Bengal and home to nearly 1.09 crore people (as per a 2020 population estimate), shaping the economic destiny of the State and the region at large-. As the December 2015 'Chennai deluge'- images of 'Islands of houses in a vast sheet of water' continue to haunt the residents of Chennai, the latest instance of an extreme weather event witnessed in the first week of November 2021 almost brought back the ghosts of 2015. Against the normal average rainfall of 110 mm for the whole month of November during the usual North-East Monsoon season, greater Chennai recorded 700 mm of rain in the first ten days, raising the spectre of 2015! These rains yet again inundated many parts of the city, but the better handling of the excess water discharge from Chennai's lifeline Lakes and Tanks- Red Hills, Chembarambakkam and Poondi-, the reasonably advanced desilting and the quick dewatering of water logged areas taken up by the M.K.Stalin-led DMK Government averted a repeat of the 2015 crisis. Topping it, there is now hope in the air as the Chief Minister, M.K. Stalin-, who unmindful of the risks rushed to the badly affected inundated areas in the city, neighbouring districts of Kancheepuram, Thiruvallur and Chengalpattu besides touring the rain-hit Cauvery delta districts right up to the southern tip of Kanniyakumari in November second week-, has formalised a mechanism to help permanently solve the Monsoons-related flooding woes and related issues in greater Chennai area and other parts of the State. The plan is on 'Mission mode' to protect the capital city of Chennai, the new Detroit of India and the hub of economic productivity in diverse sectors including in Information Technology. As announced in the Governor's Address in the maiden session of the Assembly this year, a 'Chennai Metro Flood Management Committee', comprising experts in Environment, Urban Planning, Disaster Management and other engineers/technocrats is now taking a concrete shape, thanks to a recent Revenue Department order....