TAMILNADU

Nadu has risen from 14th to third position in the list of favourable states for industrial Investment, and from fifth to third position among states promoting startups, said state Micro, Small and Medium enterprises (MSMEs) minister T M Anbarasan.

Listing out initiatives of the State Government to help MSMEs, he said work was progressing at a brisk pace to establish export guidance centres in 10 places across the state, including Chennai, Coimbatore, Pollachi, Tirupur, Hosur, Karur, Madurai and Kancheepuram. This apart, work was on to set up export facilitation centres in all the districts, he said.

The will roll out deemed approvals for planning permission applications based on self-attestation. It will also launch a single-window system to facilitate planning permission for layouts and housing plots within 60 days.

Making the announcement on Monday, chief minister M KStalinsaid the government was prepared to revive the old laws pertaining to the housing and urban development department in tune with the latest technology and with the aim to simplify functioning of the construction sector. Amendments would be brought to the Town and Country Planning Act, 1971, based on the current urban Growth, he added. The government is poised to makeTamil Nadua slum-free state by 2031. Accordingly, 9.53 lakh houses would be constructed for the poor in the next one decade. So far, the Union Government has approved construction of 6.2 lakh housing units at a financial outlay of 31,179 crore, he said.

The M-sand policy document is already under preparation and will be ready shortly. We will be in a position to have a policy, which will be more sustainable and at the same time ensuring that the prices are kept at reasonable rates. Similarly, a sustainable mining policy is also being prepared, which includes assessing the total available mining capacity.

Chief ministerM K Stalinon Tuesday launched the disbursal of 481 crore as compensation under the crop Insurance scheme to 4.43 lakh farmers who raised samba, thaladi and summer crops for the year 2021-22.

The chief minister gave away the cheques to 10 farmers at an event held in Chennai.

Prime Minister’s crop insurance scheme for the year 2021-22 was implemented in 37 districts in the state by the Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture“>Indian Agriculture Insurance Company and IFFCO-Tokio General Insurance Company Limited.

The timely remittance of 1,339 crore by the has facilitated the insurance companies to sanction 481 crore on time, the release added.

It may be noted that the Tamil Nadu government has so far remitted 2,057 crore as its share of insurance premium to 85,597 farmers who raised crops so far in around 63,331 acres during this 2022-23 year for the benefit of the farming community.

The Thamirabarani civilisation excavated in Nadu is at least 3,200 years old, exhibits carbon relationship performed on organic fabric retrieved from archeological excavations in Sivakalai, Thoothukudi district.

The determination of the age of natural release from the relative proportions of the carbon isotopes carbon-12 and carbon-14 that it contains is called Carbon Dating.

Thamirabarani River is the shortest river in the state of Tamil Nadu, the Thamirabarani river starts in Pothigai hills of the Western Ghats stretches in the Ambasamudram taluk, flows via Tirunelveli & Thoothukudi districts and empties at Korkai of Tirunelveli district into the Gulf of Mannar (Bay of Bengal).

Archaeological excavations would be carried out in different States and countries in search of Tamil roots.

In the first phase, research would be undertaken at the historical port of Muziris, now acknowledged as Pattanam, in Kerala, to set up the ancientness and way of life of the Chera empire.

Research would be carried out at Quseir al-Qadim and Pernica Anekke in Egypt, which had been once a section of the Roman empire, as properly as in Khor Rori in Oman, to set up the Tamils alternate family members with these countries. Potsherds bearing Tamil scripts have been determined in these countries.

Studies would also be carried out in Southeast Asian countries, such as Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam, the place King Rajendra Chola had set up supremacy.

The three ruling homes of Tamil India, the Pandyas, Cheras, and Cholas, fought for supremacy of southern India and Sri Lanka. These dynasties promoted early literature on the Indian subcontinent and built important Hindu temples.

Sangam literature, which used to be written over a period of six centuries (3rd BCE 3rd CE) consists of references to a range of Chola, Chera and Pandya kings.

The failure of the previous AIADMK regime to hold the local body in Tamil Nadu cost the exchequer badly. In all, the state lost Rs 2,577.29 crore of central grants in the financial years 2017-18, 2018-19 and 2019-20, according to the white paper released by finance minister PalanivelThiagarajan.

The grants, even those recommended by the Finance Commission, were not released in time for a variety of reasons. The non-release of substantial portion of grants to local bodies recommended by the 14thFinance Commissionin the three fiscal years due to the failure to hold local body elections in time is a case in point.

Nadutourismminister K Ramachandran said inMetturhere on Thursday that steps have been taken to improve the tourism sector in the state as per the latest world standard.

The minister inspected aTamil Nadu Tourism Development Corporation(TTDC) hotel in Mettur. He said necessary steps will be taken to make the hotel usable. He added, We have also sent a proposal to theWRDto take over the maintenance of the Mettur park, once we receive their Consent, we will take up renovation work.

Minister for Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture and farmers welfare,M R K Panneerselvamassured the farmers of giving a thrust to the in the first-ever separate budget for agriculture.

Farmers suggested the development of integrated farming, re-opening of sugar mills to boost sugarcane cultivation, creation of cold storage facilities for vegetables, distribution of agriculture equipment at subsidized rates, establishments of new agriculture colleges, research institutes and the inclusion of agriculture as a subject in school Education.

The association also asked the government to get the expertise of agriculture scientist Subah Palekar from Maharashtra on zero-budget farming.

ATamil inscription engravedon a broken slab has seen Light inPunganurtown ofAndhra Pradesh’s Chittoor district.

The stone has been found to belong to regnal year 3 (1072 CE).
M Anjaneya Reddy, a HISTORY lecturer at Punganur, has found the stone fixed on the tank bund, west of the forest in the erstwhile village of Punganur, now a constituency headquarters.
The Punganur region was once known as Puli Nadu.

TheTamil Naduagriculture department askedfarmersto make use of godown facilities in its regulated markets in the state.

An official release said the government was taking efforts to resolve the problems relating to transportation of goods against the backdrop of Covid restrictions.

Farmers can also avail pledge loan for 75% of the total value of the produce up to a maximum of Rs 3 lakh. The interest rate is 5%.

The Thalavadi forest range officials launched an operation to capture tusker ‘Karuppan’, which had entered Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture fields in the area and destroyed crops on several occasions in the past few days.

On January 14, forest officials made an attempt to capture the elephant through ‘Operation Black’ and failed. The elephant escaped into the forest even after it was shot with sedative darts thrice.