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Health minister Ma Subramanian gave away Awards to senior transplant surgeons, nurses and counsellors in government and private hospitals. From about 185 donations in 2016, the number of donations came down to 127 in 2019 and 55 in 2020, according to data published byTRANSTAN, a state registry that networks with hospitals and registries across the state. “In the last five years, there has been an increase in the number of people heart, lungs and pancreas being utilised. In case hearts can’t be used, doctors harvest valves,” said director of medical Services Dr S Gurunathan.

Earlier this year, 25 kids from Chennai schools made it to the prestigious Dr A P J Abdul Kalam Satellite Launch Vehicle Mission 2023. This project brought together 5,000 schoolchildren from Classes VI to XII from all over India to learn about designing and developing 150 PICO satellites, which were launched by the sounding rocket on February 19, 2023, from a coastal hamlet near Chennai.

Cracking a major national programme like this one was a breakthrough for the 25 Chennai schoolchildren who were part of engineering major Larsen & Toubros engineering futures (EF)programme. For the company, it was validation that its back-to-school projects are in a class of their own.

The EF programme (launched in 2019) is one of two major CSR projects L&T has inTamil Nadu the other being Every Child A Scientist or ECAS (since 2020). The aim: To kindle scientific temper and critical thinking among students of government schools. Both programmes aim to bridge educational gaps by helping students use technology and work with cutting-edge TEACHING and Learning Resources. The EFprogramme integrates the four disciplines of STEM (science, technology, engineering, maths) into a learning paradigm based on real-world applications. The ECAS program me helps children improve their academic scores and provides them opportunities to learn about the earth and atmospheric sciences, biology, Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture, Health and Nutrition, physics, chemistry.
So far, nearly 16,000 students from 50 schools in Nadu have been covered in the last threeand-a-half years. L&T officials say the aim is to ensure students do not get spooked by science and maths. The EF programme strives to ignite childrens innate creativity and curiosity. By offering experiential learning, complex concepts become more accessible and maths and science become less daunting, says Mabel Abraham, head-CSR, L&T. For the EF project, L&T has partnered with the NGO American India Foundation to cover Classes VI to VIII in government schools in Chennai, Kanchipuram, Chengalpet, and Tiruvallur districts.

The quantity ofliquid oxygendespatched from the two Oxygen Plants of sealed copper smelter plantSterlitecrossed 1,000 tonnes on Monday. In a statement, the company said the milestone was reached when a truck with 16.5 metric tonnes of oxygen left to the Tuticorin and Tirunelveli medical college hospitals.

It has been sent to 23 districts in Nadu Tuticorin, Tirunelveli, Madurai, Namakkal, Kanyakumari, Thanjavur, Krishnagiri, Dindigul, Theni, Karur, Thiruvarur, Sivagangai, Tiruchirappalli, Pudukottai, Nagapattinam, Salem, Ramanathapuram, Tenkasi, Virudhunagar, Ranipet, Kumbakonam, Mayiladuthurai and Dharmapuri. It is in addition to 712 cylinders with 4,984 cubic meters of gaseous oxygen supplied to five districts.

The plant with a capacity of 1,050 metric tonnes a day was reopened in the first week of May to produce oxygen under the direction of the apex court.

TheTamil Nadu Agricultural University(TNAU) has received a design patent for UAVdownwashAirflow test Rig from the office of the controller general of patents, designs and trademarks.

According to TNAU, use of drones or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) for crop spraying against diseases, pests, and has increasingly become important in recent years. To measure the downwash airflow pattern generated by rotor propellers of UAV, a downwash airflowtestrig was designed and developed.

The rig is useful for investigating the parameters and distribution laws of downwash airflow velocity of UAV sprayers in outdoor conditions.

Withoxygen availability in Maduraiand the southern region getting worse, hospitals and healthcare experts have demanded that the government take steps to provide a major portion of the lifesaving gas produced at the Sterlite plant to these districts.

The District Administration held talks with these liquid Oxygen refillers and asked them to adhere to the agreements signed with private hospitals and supply oxygen accordingly.

Major corporate hospitals in the city are trying to install storage facilities on their campus, but have been told by the installing firm that they would have to wait for two months as the demand is high.

The cost of installing an oxygen plant has doubled from Rs 5 crore before the pandemic, according to sources in a hospital.

Outcomes of key Health indicators such as maternal mortality rate and fertility rate have slowed down inTamil Naduand the state was also no longer a top performer in organ transplant, former health minister Dr C Vijayabaskar said.

There were 54 maternal deaths for every one lakh live births in Nadu between 2018 and 2020 as per the special bulletin on maternal mortality rate of the sample registration system (SRS), he said. Although there was a dip compared to the 58 deaths during 2017-2019, the mere four-point difference pushed Tamil Nadu to the fifth slot compared to the third slot it held since 2010.

Tamil Nadu, which had one of the best performers in organ transplant and donation has dropped behind Telangana and Maharashtra in the last two years, he said.

The National Bank for https://exam.pscnotes.com/Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture“>Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture and Rural Development () has sanctioned funds to the tune of 146.64 crore for the implementation of as many as 133 rural Infrastructure projects in Cuddalore district.

In a press release, NABARD District Development Manager Vijay Neehar said that a sum of 34.15 crore had been released under the Rural Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF) covering various vital infrastructure projects for development of Cuddalore district such as rural roads and bridges, Irrigation, schools and veterinary projects.

According to the release, NABARD has also refinanced 348.20 crore to Cuddalore Cooperative Bank and 155.25 crore to Tamil Nadu Grama Bank for 2020-21. With NABARD grant support, an integrated Watershed Management scheme with Climate mitigation measures is being implemented in Kotteri, Narumanam, Koltankurichi, Thandakaranakuppam and Shri Adivarahanallur in the district.

Salem was one of those districts that exceeded the target of person days last year, generating about 1.24 crore person days against the approved 1.12 crore person days. Kancheepurams performance was said to be impressive in Resources“>Natural Resources management, water conservation and plantation. As many as 174 check-Dams were built.

What was considered significant by the authorities than the increase in the generation of person days was that the MGNREGS ensured the disbursal of 160 crore-185 crore every week to the beneficiaries, proving to be a steady source of support to the rural economy, the official feels.

Nadu has told The Supreme Court that it does not want the Indian Neutrino Observatory (INO) to be built in a vulnerable ecological zone in the Western Ghats, at the cost of wildlife and Biodiversity, along with local opposition and public outcry against the project.

The proposal for the observatory, according to the Tamil Nadu government, would create permanent damage to the Western Ghats.

In June 2021, the Chief Minister met with the Prime Minister and requested that the project not be implemented. In September 2021 a delegation led by Member of Parliament T.R. Balu met with the Ministers of Industries and Forests to communicate the States opposition to the proposal.

According to the State, this corridor connects the Periyar Tiger Reserve on the Kerala-Tamil Nadu border and the Mathikettan Shola National Park.

The project area also has ecological ties to the Srivilliputhur Meghamalai Tiger Reserve, which is located in the eastern habitats. It is Home to tigers from the area, which assists in a genetic spread. The tigers movement would be affected by even the smallest disturbance. The area is also a significant watershed and catchment zone for the rivers Sambhal and Kottakudi.

Though the experiments in the observatory would be done a kilometer underground excavations, transporting, and tunneling would jeopardize the zones ecology.

So, going through with the implementation of the project will cause harm to this area.

The India Neutrino Observatory (INO) is a particle physics research project being constructed in Theni, Tamil Nadu, to study atmospheric neutrinos. This project is noteworthy because it is expected to give exact measurements of neutrino mixing parameters. The project has a multi-institutional PARTNERSHIP and is one of Indias most significant experimental particle physics programmes.

If and when this project will be completed, the worlds largest magnet will be used in the magnetized iron calorimeter experiment, which will be four times larger than the 12,500-tonne magnet used in the Compact Muon Solenoid detector at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland.

An effort to make mathematics Learning easier through an activity-based learning project will be launched in Nadu soon.

Magizh Kanitham’ (Learning Mathematics with Joy) will, according to Samagra Shiksha officials, kindle interest among children to learn mathematics. This new TEACHING concept will teach basic mathematics, algebra, and geometry through 180-minute Videos.

The state Education Department is planning to implement the Magizh Kanitham in 6,948 government middle schools across Tamil Nadu with immediate effect.

State Samagra Shiksha officials said that the assessment done on the students has revealed that most of the students in middle schools were finding mathematics difficult and considered it a dreaded subject.

They expressed hope that the students would get basic knowledge of the subject through video learning and get a grip of the subject through this innovative method of learning.

The involvement of mathematics teachers in analysing the students is also an important part of the new concept of learning the subject.