Srinivasapuram (சீனிவாசபுரம்) is a

slum A slum is a highly populated Urban area, urban residential area consisting of densely packed housing units of weak build quality and often associated with poverty. The infrastructure in slums is often deteriorated or incomplete, and they are p ...

located in

Chennai Chennai, also known as Madras (List of renamed places in India#Tamil Nadu, its official name until 1996), is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Tamil Nadu by population, largest city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost states and ...

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. It is centered between

Santhome Santhome is a locality in Mylapore in Chennai city (formerly Madras) in India. History The word ''Santhome'' or ''San Thome'' is derived from Thomas the Apostle, Saint Thomas. The tradition is that he was martyred in AD 72 at St.Thomas Mount in ...

and Adyar, along the shore of the sea. It has a large population of

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. The slum was seriously affected by the

2004 Indian Ocean tsunami On 26 December 2004, at 07:58:53 local time (UTC+07:00, UTC+7), a major earthquake with a magnitude of 9.2–9.3 struck with an epicenter, epicentre off the west coast of Aceh in northern Sumatra, Indonesia. The Submarine earthquake, undersea ...

. As of 2011, it has a population of 299.

Education

*Sri Venkateswara Matriculation Higher Secondary School

References

Neighbourhoods in Chennai {{Chennai-geo-stub