The initiative, funded entirely by community donations, started evening cookouts and activity groups.
Now, a new initiative funded by the Wellcome Trust is aiming to just that.
Tuesday's budget announcements also include confirmation that the government will proceed with a new "asset recycling initiative" funded at $5bn.
At the same time they launched another key part of the programme - the reducing burglary initiative, funded by £24m.
This day was part of the Sowing New Seeds project, an initiative funded by the Big Lottery Local Food Fund and the Brook Trust.
That risk, however, isn't stopping Ecotality from putting Chademo units into use, with financial support from the EV Project, an initiative funded by the Department of Energy.
Smart monitors giving real time digital information about energy use will arrive in schools this month in a £12m initiative funded by the Department for Children, Schools and Families.
Unlike the first run, which was made up of content originally filmed for an online initiative funded by beer brand Foster's, the second season is being made specifically for TV.
The $11m£6.7m7m) Safe and Inclusive Cities initiative, funded by Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and Britain's Department for International Development (DfID), will provide 15 research teams with grants of up to $500,000 each.
A two-year, $2.6 million initiative funded by the league will reach 40,000 kids and 1,500 coaches with the Atlas and Athena programs this year, he said.
"The challenge is not resources – the challenge is how will Chennai use its resources?" says Vikram Singh from 100 Resilient Cities (100RC), the global initiative funded by the Rockefeller Foundation.
