Minister for Hindu religious and charitable endowments P K Sekar Babu on Wednesday launched a toll-free telephone number and a 24-hour helpline to help devotees report grievances and get information on temples in Nadu.
Complaints received at this new centre are assigned a number and forwarded to the officer concerned for appropriate action.
With 17 new medical colleges government, private and deemed universities Naduwill add 2,350 MBBS seats to the seat matrix during the admission in 2021.
With this, the state will have 69 medical colleges offering 10,375 MBBS seats the highest in the country, according to the National Medical Council website.
In 2021, nearly 12% of government medical seats in India are from the state. This also means the state will offer the highest number of seats under the 15% all India quota.
The state has a policy to have at least one government medical College in every district, Health minister Ma Subramanian said.
Chief ministerM K Stalinlaunched an Internet page on freedom fighter V O Chidambaram Pillai at theTamildigital library and released the 150th birthday souvenir magazine, on the occasion of his 86th death anniversary.
The internet page in the digital library consists of 11 books written by him including seven editions and four translations. The page also has e-books; 20 biographic books on VOC, six centenary year souvenirs, a compilation of essays written on him, five research books and six other books on VOC. Besides, the page has 17 documentaries, seven handwritten copies and 38 other documents on the life of VOC.
Tamil virtual academy is involved in turning all the books on VOC into e-books. In view of 150th birthday of VOC on September 3, 2021,Stalinhad announced that Tamil virtual academy will take up the task of converting all the literature on VOC into e-books.
Stating that allriversin Nadu are in the ICU as they do not have a right to life due to encroachments and pollution, water conservationist and environmentalist and waterman of India, Rajendra Singh said that the State Government should take steps to revive them.
Every river has three kinds of rights – right to land, environmental flow and cleanliness. As per the right of land, it should only be used by the rivers. Every river has three kinds of land parcels – river flow zone, flood zone and heavy flood zone. But all these land parcels are encroached. All the waterbodies in the state including rivers, tanks and ponds in the state are encroached with the help of the government.
State of Nadu and Denmark have planned to create anenergy islandin Gulf of Mannar that lies between the west coast of Sri Lanka and south-eastern tip of India.
This plan was made as Tamil Nadu is looking to expand its footprint in the green Energy sector.
To achieve this target, Denmark is likely to invest $5-10 billion in the RENEWABLE ENERGY sector in the state. It also includes Investment for anenergy islandin the Gulf of Mannar.
With this investment, island would be able to produce 4-10 GW of energy.
A delegation of experts from Denmark met Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, M K Stalin on September 8, 2021 to discuss the plan. If the plan materialises, it will be Indias first offshore floating wind park.
Tamil Nadu and Denmark made their plan for the investments, days after the Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (Tangedco) announced to launch 20,000 Mw of solar power projects with adequate battery storage, 2,000 Mw of gas-based power units and 3,000 Mw of pumped storage hydroelectric projects. These projects will require loans of about Rs 1.32 trillion.
Value of Danish investment in Tamil Nadu in the period of January 2003 to January 2021 is estimated at $ 751.72 million. Some of the Danish companies operating in Tamil Nadu include Maersk, Vestas, Cubic, Danfoss, Grundfos, and FLSmidth.
The Hosur forest division and adjoining forests are Home to about 300 elephants. Many of these animals regularly move into contiguous, adjoining forests of Karnataka and through a series of small forest patches northward into Chittoor forests of Andhra Pradesh. The southward movement of these elephants takes them to the Cauvery River.
Radio-collaring of elephants ranging in the northern fragmented habitats of the Hosur forest division is vital to preempt elephant occurrence in conflict regions or around high-risk areas such as highways, human habitations and crop fields.
Collaring of elephants ranging in the more contiguous habitats closer to the Cauvery wildlife sanctuary in the southern Hosur forest division would help in understanding habitat use and decision-making about this elephant Population and to develop movement and habitat use models for the entire population.
The Average herd size recorded in this region is around 10 and, at times, they range in group-size as large as 70, especially during the season. By collaring a few select adult females, one would, in fact, be able to gather fine-scale information on a large sub-set of the population.
Taking cognizance of the plight of Tamils working abroad, theTamil Nadugovernment is set to put in place a system to track them, aid them in their hour of crisis, insure them and offer financial assistance when they plan to return, says minister of minorities welfare,Wakf BoardandNon-Resident Tamilswelfare Gingee K S Masthan . In an interview to Shanmughasundaram J , he details the measures being taken for the welfare of Sri Lankan refugees including a new housing project and better living conditions in the camps until the DMK governments plea for granting them Citizenship is accepted.
Many NRT associations and representatives said families of those who may have been killed in an accident at the workplace or those who died of other causes find it difficult to get back their mortal remains. They lamented that many of them were being cheated by the employers when it comes to the nature of the job and wages.
TheTamil NaduTribal Advisory Council is to be restructured soon to work on the lines of theTamil NaduCommission for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, said minister of Adi Dravidar welfare N Kayalvizhi Selvaraj.
As of now, the tribes council is implementing various projects for tribal people.
The Tamil Nadu Tribal Advisory Council was first formed in 1961, and was restructured in 1978, 1980, 1998, 2007, 2009 and 2018. In 2021, it was theDMKgovernment that established an exclusive state commission for SCs/STs.
Building materials companyAparna Enterpriseswill invest Rs 100 crore towards building itsaluminum windowanddoor systembrand Alteza in next four years.
The investments will be used for strengthening its product portfolio as well as manufacturing facility, Marketing and retailing. The company also launched its latest range of slim aluminum sliding door system – ACA M-19 Series.
The system works on very narrow sightlines and is the slimmest aluminum sliding door system that Alteza offers to its customers. This system is based on minimalistic design, which offers 19 mm of thin aluminum profile throughout the door opening including the interlock, and the system can be used for corner openings as well.
Motor IndiaLimited (HMIL) has announced new long term plans in the state ofTamil Nadufor the development of its electric vehicle (EV) ecosystem. A statement released by the company said that it will make further inroads into electric vehicles and modernization of vehicle platform by investing Rs 20,000 crore in a phased manner over the period of 10 years (2023 to 2032).
As a part of the plan, Hyundai will set up a state-of-the-art battery pack assembly unit with an annual capacity to assemble 1,78,000 units of batteries. Furthermore, the company plans to install 100 EV charging stations at key locations in major highways, over a period of five years.