TAMILNADU

FaMe TN, an autonomous agency of theTamil Nadugovernment, has entered into MoUs with 100 MSME companies to attract investments up to 1,510 crore.

These units are to be established in multiple sectors including automobile, aerospace, DEFENCE, electric vehicles (EV), pharma and textile across the state and are expected to generate EMPLOYMENT opportunities for around 7,400 people.

The MoUs were exchanged in the presence of chief minister M K Stalin on Tuesday to mark International MSMEs Day. FaMe TN also signed one with to facilitate loans for MSMEs.

Stalin said, Annal Ambedkar Business Champions Scheme offers 35% capital subsidy on the project cost including land, plant, machinery, testing equipment and computing devices, besides 6% interest subvention for loans offered for up to 10 years. No state has such a high subsidy scheme for beneficiaries belonging to SC/ST communities. Sanction orders for 127 entrepreneurs covering a loan of 45 crore have been obtained in a short span of three months since the scheme was announced, he said. Stalin gave away the sanction orders for 100 beneficiaries on the occasion.

Apprenticeship and job opportunities are opening up in the rubber and plastic sector in Naduthis financial year.

Over 4,500 vacancies have been generated for apprenticeship and placement in the two sectors in the state, saidDeepmala Moorjani, senior manager Industry connect, Rubber, Chemical & Petrochemical Skill development Council (RCPSDC) at the just concluded skill meet organised in Chennai.

Several large players in the state have shown keen interest in hiring skilled manpower including the likes of tyre and parts majors like MRF, Ceat, Apollo Tyres, Sundaram Industries, Minda, JBM Auto andEmerald Tyressaid Annama Jacob, regional manager south, RCPSDC. There are nearly 6,000 rubber and plastic manufacturing industries in Tamil Nadu.

Flipkart, the country’s homegrown E-Commerce marketplace, on Wednesday launched its grocery Services here with the opening of its first fulfillment center in theregionto meet the growing demand for groceries online.

The facility also bolsters Flipkart’s supply chain in theSouthand would create thousands of direct and indirect EMPLOYMENT and opportunities, a company release said.
Spread across over 1.2 lakh square feet, the newly built facility would generate direct employment for nearly 1,200 people while encouraging local entrepreneurship.

In the initial stages, only a part of the facility would be utilised for which over 500 people would be hired and this would be the only facility for Flipkart which would almost be entirely run by Women constituting 90 per cent of theoverall workforce.

To enable more women to join the workforce, Flipkart under its initiative Vividhta provides workplace policies that support women and their career progression.

The new fulfillment centre would further augment Flipkart’s capabilities to cater to more consumers, including millions of first-time e-commerce consumers from the southern region.
Flipkart has also introduced multiple language access for consumers to provide a native language experience.
Interestingly, over 52 per cent of Flipkart consumers are from tier-II and beyond cities, a testament to the growing adoption of e-commerce services.
This would be Flipkart’s second grocery facility inTamil Naduafter Chennai and ninth in the South.

The Nadu government will engage with the Industry and come out with an economic revival plan, Industries Minister Thangam Thennarasu has said.

Interacting with select members of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)-Tamil Nadu, he said the industrial activity would be allowed in phases, with the drop in the COVID-19 cases factored in.

The members urged the government to come out with a policy to support migrant labourers, important as they were for reviving and sustaining the economic activity, the CII said in a statement.

Micro, Small and Medium enterprises were the most affected by the second wave of COVID-19, the members said, urging the government to help them restart through financial packages and loan moratoria.

With a view to minimising impact on lives, livelihood, critical , and Environment during disasters, chief ministerM K Stalinon Friday rolled out state Disaster Management plan and state disaster management policy 2023.

The plan aims at makingTamil Nadua disaster resilient state by enhancing the capacity of all stakeholders to respond to disasters. The plan aims at minimising impact on critical infrastructure like Health and Education and socio-cultural status of people.
The policy said inclusive development and mainstreaming disaster risk reduction (DRR) into the Sustainable Development ethos of the state were the need of the hour.
Over the past century, more than50 cycloneshad battered the Tamil Nadu coast at various locations, posing a constant threat to people living in the coastal districts.

On the implementation of the plan, Tamil Nadu disaster risk reduction agency says that the disaster management (DM) Act 2005 enjoins state governments to make provisions for the implementation of the disaster management plans.

The Act also mandates that every department of the State Government prepare a departmental disaster management plan in accordance with the state disaster management plan (SDMP).

The Human Spirit: Propositions On Resilience In These Irregular Times, a virtual Indo-Korean ceramic and glass exhibition specially commissioned by InKo Centre, was inaugurated on January 21.

The exhibition looks at the artistic interpretations of the concept of resilience of the human spirit, especially post the pandemic, through the medium of ceramic and glass. Both are transformed through fire into new states of being. The exhibition examines the metaphor of rejuvenation, transformation, fluidity and permeability as attributes of both ceramics and glass through figurative, abstract and natural forms.

The has set up an eight-member publicity and promotion committee at the Directorate of Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture for promotion and publicity of state and central schemes implemented in the agriculture sector.

The committee has been entrusted with the task of preparing a number of small video clips on important crops, technologies, scheme components and other forecast news in Tamil. The video content will be specific and subjects where intervention is required, such as applying for micro-Irrigation with subsidy, farm machineries, formation of FPOs, role of FPOs, procurement of pulses/copra, arrangement of seed.

The has sanctioned a sum of Rs 2 crore for establishment of a turmeric research centre in Erode district.

The centre has been approved following a request from the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University.

The centre would research on evolving high yielding varieties with high curcumin content, varieties resistant to rhizome rot and foliar diseases, find out improved scientific management practices and come up with post harvest management techniques.