Chennai Turns 372 on 22nd August 2011 | Gallery of The Madras Day Since 1639 | Madras Day Celebrations 2011

It has been a continued and active adventure for the city-limits which came into getting on August 22, 1639 if the again British ambassador Francis Day addled a accord with bounded Nayak rulers for a sliver of acreage area the Fort St George, the bench of ability of the Tamil Nadu government, stands today.

The city-limits has today developed into a abundant city-limits of 4.6 actor humans (including suburbs 6.4 million), assuming the continuing about-face of rural citizenry to burghal areas in the accompaniment gluttonous bigger application opportunities.

Commemorating the event, a week-long programme is getting organized by assorted accessible and clandestine institutions forth with NGOs extending the Madras Day celebrations that accept become a approved affection the endure seven years.

Heritage walks, tours, exhibitions including those of photo archives, quiz contests and inter-school meets are a part of the contest planned for the altogether bash, billed as ancestry awakening and canning initiatives.

Madras Day focuses on the city, its history, its accomplished and its present and its amount team, including acclaimed historian S Muthiah, motivates communities, groups, companies and campuses to host contest that bless the city.