TAMILNADU

E V Ramasamy Periyar was born on September 17. This day will now be celebrated as Social Day every year.

Periyars ideology was all about social justice, Equality, self-respect, and rationalism. This laid the foundation stone for Tamil societys Growth during the last century. These ideologies would also pave way for the future. Thus, government decided to celebrate his birth anniversary every year to celebrate the symbolic reinforcement of his egalitarian principles.

Every year, on September 17, employees in all government offices and State Secretariat will take pledges to follow values on the basis of such lofty ideals comprising of equality, brotherhood, self-respect and rationalism.

According to the Chief Minister, Services of Periyar to the Tamil Society were significant and instrumental in the enactment of first Constitutional Amendment Act, which safeguardedreservationfor backward classes.

and excise minister S Muthusamy said an official team was formed to check the feasibility of sellingliquorin tetra packs.
“Many states and union territories like Karnataka and Puducherry have made liquor available in tetra packs. We will also implement it based on the panel’s report and its pros and cons,” he said while addressing the media in Bhavani, where he participated in many government events.

Muthusamy said a memorial would be constructed for Eswaran, who first proposed the Lower Bhavani dam and canal projects in Sathyamangalam taluk in the early 1950s.

Kuruvai paddycultivationthis year will exceed 5.2 lakh acres as already planned and arrangements have been made to stock all varieties of Fertilizers to avoid shortage, state Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture director A Annadurai has said. About 65,000 tonnes of urea and sufficient stock of diammonium sulphate (DAP) are available and officials have been asked to ensure private fertilizer agencies dont indulge in misappropriations, he said after a consultation meeting with agriculture officials about the distribution of kuruvai special package.

Last year, 4.9 lakh acres of land was under cultivation, the highest in 46 years. This year we will cross the targeted area of 5.20 lakh acres easily. So far cultivation is being undertaken on 2.30 lakh acres in delta districts. Under special kuruvai package, 13,000 farmers have registered their names so far and around 1,600 have got inputs.

Only one in five governmentschoolsinTamil Naduhasinternetfacility. Of the 37,579 government schools in the state, only 6,746 schools (17.9%) have Internet facility, said the Unified District Information System for Education Plus (UDISE+) report for 2019-20 released last week.

The report comes at a time when internet facility has become one of the basic requirements for Learning due to online mode of education during the Covid-19 pandemic. More than 80% government schools, however, have computer facility and most of them are functional.

There are possibilities that training of teachers will be completely online post-pandemic and all schools may need access to high-speed internet. The should ensure computer and internet access to 100% schools. It will help to bridge the digital divide among rural and urban students.

The prevalence ofbonded labourinTamil Naduhas reduced drastically by 81.9% — from 29.9% in 2014 to 5.4% in 2021, according to areporttitled Implementation of the Bonded Labour System Abolition Act in the State of Nadu’ released by anNGO.

The study on the Bonded Labour Act was carried out byASK Training and Learning. It was released by T Raja, former acting chief Justice of the Madras High Court. The release was facilitated by the Anti-Human Trafficking Club at Sathyabama School of Law in association with the International Justice Mission.

The report was carried out under four methodologies — the prevalence study, achievements of government, deterrence study and confidence study.

Under the prevalence study, a state-wide quantitative survey was undertaken in which 9,942 people, who were rescued from bonded labour in 37 districts (excluding Chennai), were interviewed. The report found “as compared to 2014, there has been a relative reduction of 81.9% in the state, from 29.9% to 5.4% (from 1 in 3 people to 1 in 20) in 2021.

More importantly, the bonded labour complaints submitted in 2020 and 2021 received 100% response rate from district administrations.

They announced Srivilliputhur-Megamalai Tiger Reserve in Nadu will protect the Megamalai, Vaigais main catchment area, and help the river to rise.
Highlights:

About Vaigai River:

Its origins can be traced back to the Western Ghats (Varushanad Hills)

Suruliyaru, Mullaiyaru, Varaganadhi, Manjalaru, Kottagudi, Kridhumaal, and Upparu are its major tributaries.

The Vaigai runs for 258 kilometres before emptying into the Palk Strait near the Pamban Bridge in Ramanathapuram district.

The Vaigai was a river that ran through Madurai, the famous city that served as the capital (4th-11th century CE) of the ancient and prosperous Pandya kingdom in southern Tamil Nadu.

The river is mentioned in Sangam literature dating back to 300 BC.

The river supplies drinking water to five districts in Tamil Nadu: Theni, Madurai, Ramanathapuram, Dindigul and Sivagangai.

Srivilliputhur-Megamalai Tiger Reserve:

It was founded in February 2021. It was jointly declared by the governments of the Centre and Tamil Nadu.

The Megamalai WLS and the adjacent Srivilliputhur WLS were combined for this.

Srivilliputhur-Megamalai Tiger Reserve is the 51st tiger reserve in India and the fifth tiger reserve in Tamil Nadu.

Bengal tigers, elephants, gaurs, Indian giant squirrels, leopards, Nilgiri Tahrs, and other animals can be seen here.

It is made up of tropical evergreen and semi-evergreen forests, dry deciduous and moist mixed deciduous forests, and Grassland.

TheTamil Nadugovernment on Wednesday signed six memorandums of understanding (MoUs) with various institutions and companies based inSingaporein the presence of chief ministerM K Stalinat an conclave on the second day of his nine-day visit to Singapore and Japan.
The MoUs signed included an understanding between Guidance Tamil Nadu and Singapore Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industries (SICCI) in the fields of research and invention, university cooperation, cooperation between government institutes and private sectors and support for export activities of industries from Tamil Nadu, besides one between Sipcot and Singapore India PARTNERSHIP Office (Sipo) for cooperation in economic activities and development. Another MoU was signed between Sipo and FameTN and Tansim in developing skills in technical Education and easing the activities of startups by working closely with StartupTN.

In addition, Guidance Tamil Nadu signed an MoU with Hi-P International Private Limited, based in Singapore, for establishing an electronics factory in Tamil Nadu.

The venture would attract an investment of312 crore and is expected to provide EMPLOYMENT for 700 people.

TheTamil Nadugovernment will set up aseismic monitoring centrewith the support of the National Centre forSeismologyof the Union Government, given the seismic activities felt in the recent past in the state.
The government will introduce a new mobile application, TN-Alert, to issue alerts to the users on disasters, storage levels of waterbodies, and information on thunderstorm, lightning and rainfall, besides a technical unit equipped with experts from various fields at Rs 13 crore.

The Nadu urban EMPLOYMENT schemewould generate employment for the urbanpoorin 15 municipal corporations, including Chennai, seven municipalities and 37 town panchayats in the state, said municipal administrationministerK N Nehru.

The Rs 100crore Tamil Nadu urban employment scheme was one of the recommendations of a high-level committee headed by former RBI governor Dr C Rangarajan formed by the State Government to assess the economic impact of Covid-19 in the state. The scheme works on the line of MGNREGA in rural parts.

The state government under the urban employment scheme will provide a uniform wage of Rs 363 per day to unemployed men and Women workers hailing from urban poor families.

PMK president and Rajya Sabha MP Anbumani Ramadoss has urged the Nadu government to evolve plans and policies to reduce its debt and to increase its revenue. In a statement on Monday, Anbumani regretted that the Tamil Nadu government has decided to mobilize 51,000 crore loan to meet its expenses in the first three months in 2023.

The Tamil Nadu government must not fall into a debt trap. The government must evolve constructive ways and means to increase its revenue and reduce its debt burden, Anbumani said in the statement. He said the state has availed loans to a tune of Rs 6.53 lakh crore so far and it pays an annual interest of 48,121 crore for the loan. The interest alone amounts to more than one-third of its revenue on taxes, which is 1.42 lakh crore per year.