Gandhi Nagar, Chennai

Gandhi Nagar is a neighbourhood in Adyar, in the south eastern part of the Indian city of Chennai.

Today Gandhi Nagar is a commercial hot spot having relatively good transport and other facilities.

Gandhi Nagar is one of the earliest planned layouts in the erstwhile Madras with more than 322 housing plots, underground drainage systems and broad roads.

At that time in 1942, Gandhi Nagar had lush paddy fields and was used for agriculture and was bordered by Guindy forest (which has almost disappeared now).

They worked in Triplicane, but bought vast lands in Gandhi Nagar as their building construction flourished.

The Mudaliar brothers construction industry recruited people from Sathurangapattinam (Sadras), the first workers settled on banks of Adyar River, this settlement was later called Malligai Poo Nagar.