Shyam Sundar

Shyam Sundar (born 6 May 1990) is a social activist, Founder & admin of Trichinopoly Facebook group. He is also a active and one of the Founder members of a NGO named as TIDES(Trichy Intracity Development Endeavors) which works on the development and growth of Trichy city on all aspects.
Early life and education
Shyam Sundar, was born on 6 May 1990 in Madurai and was brought up in Tiruchirapalli It was here, at age twelve he shifted his school from R.S.K. Hr Sec School to BPBHSS,after his schooling he joined PRIST and took Mechanical Engineering as his major. He struggled a lot after doing it without interest on that field.
Family
Born to an Educated Doctor Family, all his family members were doctors execept him.
Early career
“Trichinopoly started out as a recording of the ‘Pride of Tiruchi’ — legends, temples and tourist spots,” says Shyam. “We realised the potential of the page to take up civic and social issues only when we put up a photograph of uncleared garbage in a residential area and tagged the respective MLA on Facebook. There was a prompt response.” At times, the communities act as watchdogs, keep developing issues alive. “We follow up on progress or the lack of it on projects announced for the city like the IT park link road and the IIM campus. We post photos of stages of development with information we have collected at the project site,” says Shyam.“Whatever its limitations, a Facebook city page has a collective voice which is more powerful than an individual voice,” says Shyam. “Earlier, he wrote about the state of urinals in the central bus stand and exhorted the members in the group to send e-mails to the district Collector. He did see some follow-up action.” With thousands of people who profess to care about the city on these pages, citizen initiatives for betterment of the city, lie unrealised.
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