TAMILNADU

Abillto empower the to appoint vice-chancellors forTamil Nadu Veterinaryand Animal Sciences University (TANUVAS) was introduced in the assembly to amend the TANUVAS Act, 1989, follows a series of bills passed in the assembly.

All these bills empower the state government to appoint VCs instead of the governor appointing them. When the bill was introduced, the AIADMK opposed it at the introductory stage. The governor is yet to give assent to any of the bills.

K N Nehru introduces bill to collect edu tax in Urban Local Bodies: Minister for municipal administration K N Nehru introduced a bill to levy and collect Education tax in urban local bodies. The bill, to amend the Tamil Nadu Urban Local Bodies Act, 1998, empowers the local bodies to levy education tax of not more than 5% of annual value of all lands, buildings, Telecommunication towers and storage structures built on or attached to the land, as determined by the council concerned.

Lessons learnt during last years lockdown are seemingly helping large industries in Nadu handle production during the second wave of the infection.

However, smaller businesses, especially MSMEs who are yet to come out of debts of the first wave, feel any further downturn will create a huge dent in their balance sheets.

From vaccinating senior workers, arranging transportation, sourcing raw materials, providing accommodation near factory premises and re-aligning operations, big companies are confident of overcoming the current tide.

The allocation of 1,000 crore to the Trichy-Nagapattinam agro-industrial corridor in the agriculturebudgettabled has revived the project that was dormant for two years.
While the allocation will be utilised to create and support systems for Growth of Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture and food industries in five central districts, Sidco too has a separate plan to create new industrial estates in Thanjavur and Tiruvarur districts with special focus on Food Processing sector.
The corridor will primarily focus on encouraging value-added products from food and Cash Crops and promulgating farmers organisations to make a foray into food processing sector to consider export opportunities. Fetching lucrative procurement prices for farmers and EMPLOYMENT generation are key objectives of the corridor.

The Vandampalai industrial estate and Palayapatti industrial estate in Thanjavur district will play a crucial role in the proposed agro-industrial corridor.
The corridor was first proposed in 2021 for Trichy, Thanjavur, Tiruvarur, Nagapattinam and Mayiladuthurai districts. Fund allocation has come in the backdrop of FaMe TN (Facilitating MSMEs in Tamil Nadu) completing the detailed project report for the corridor in consultation with MSMEs and stakeholders. The corridor will develop a connectivity map by linking the Trichy international airport and key RAILWAY stations.

Residents ofMintand surrounding areas in Chennai will soon get another spot to spend their evenings and early morning hours.

A park in the area, which is under construction, will be open to the public by April this year.

Under theSingara Chennai2.0 scheme, the park is being constructed under the Mint flyover at a cost of Rs 5 crore.

The park will have a walkers path, area for senior citizens, open air gym and facilities, sculptures and art work, tensile fabric structures, toilets and parking.

A total of 1,000 saplings have been planted in the park by local residents in memory of their loved ones. These will be maintained by theGreater Chennai Corporation.

After hitting a peak in 2011 in terms of production and capacity use, the sugar inTamil Naduhas been down since 2016. The area under sugarcane fell with water scarcity and 15 of the 43 sugar mills in the state downed shutters.

The bountiful rain in 2021 has seen green shoots sprouting, but a turnaround is at least a couple of cutting seasons away. A hand from the government would help, say mill owners. This is an industry that caters to five lakh farmers, provides direct and indirect EMPLOYMENT to two lakh and generates around `4,500 crore in revenue.

Unlike in other states, mills in Tamil Nadu have a unique problem. The Centre fixes the Fair and Remunerative Price (FRP) per tonne at 9.5% recovery and including the farmers transport cost in bringing cane to the mills. But Tamil Nadu millers have to pay transport cost over and above FRP and the sugar they recover from a tonne of cane is also less.

The Nadu cabinet on Wednesday approved eight new industrial Investment proposals worth 15,610 crore. To be spread across districts, these projects are expected to generate 8,776 jobs, industries minister Thangam Thennarasu said.

The investment proposals are for multiple sectors including electric vehicles, wireless technology, textiles and Oxygen manufacturing. These projects would come up in Krishnagiri, Theni, Pudukkottai and in districts around Chennai. Refusing to name the companies whose investment proposals were cleared on Wednesday, citing “commercial-sensitive reasons”, Thangam Thennarasu said the names will be revealed when they sign memoranda of understanding with the government.

Cabinet approval has been given for a few projects in the industrial complexes in Sriperumbudur, Pillaipakkam and Oragadam near Parandur, the site chosen for the new greenfield airport.

The Nadu government announced Thamizh Thaai Vaazhthu as the state song on 17 Dec 2021, requiring everyone to stand when it is sung on occasions.

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Differently abled people and pregnant Women, on the other hand, will be exempt.
The order comes after the Madras High Court recently declared that the Tamil Thaai Vaazhthu was merely a prayer hymn, not a National Anthem and that no one needed to stand up.
According to an official statement, a G.O. has been issued in this regard, and the song must be sung at the start of all events hosted by educational institutions, universities, government offices, public sector businesses, and public organizations.