TAMILNADU

Tamil Nadu assembly to pass anti-NEET Bill

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In a special sitting at Fort St George, the Nadu assembly on Tuesday reintroduced the Bill, popularly known as the anti-NEET Bill, to provide for admission to undergraduate courses in medicine, dentistry, Indian medicine and homeopathy on the basis of marks obtained in the qualifying examination. The anti-NEET Bill also provides for the students of government schools to get 7.5% horizontal quota in medical admission.

The special sitting was convened after chief minister M K Stalin-led meeting of all legislature parties — barring the AIADMK and its allies the BJP and the Puratchi Bharatham — on Saturday resolved to reintroduce and pass the Bill again after governor R N Ravi returned the Bill for reconsideration.

Tamil Nadu has 6.4crore voters: ECI

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Naduhas 6.4crore voters, with Women voters outnumbering their male counterparts, according to final electoral rolls released by the Election Commission of India on Wednesday.
According to theSpecial Summary Revision of Photo Electoral Rolls, 2022 released by the chief electoral officer, male voters accounted for 3,12,26,759 of the total electorate while there were 3,23,91,250 female voters. The state has 7,804 third gender voters.

The highest electorate in TN is inSholinganallurassembly constituency in Chengalpet which has 7,11,755 voters, followed byKavundampalayamin Coimbatore while the lowest electorate was fromKilvelurin Nagapattinam district with 1,78,517 voters.

Adi RangaTheatre School(ARTS), which has received financial support to the tune of Rs 95 lakh under CSR funds fromTamil NadubasedNLC India Ltd, a Navratna company, is now ready to mesmerise audiences, and to train enthusiasts in various performing arts.

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Yashavant Sirdeshpande, president, Guru Institute, under which ARTS has come up, told TOI that the ARTS premises is constructed on 36 guntas in the outskirts of Lohia Nagar, Hubballi. We had got the land from Huda in 2013, but the work on the school started in 2017.
The state-of-the-art premises has come up by utilising locally available and low-cost Resources. Apart from the contribution of Rs 95 lakh from NLC India, Hubballi basedVRLcompany gave Rs 20 lakh under its CSR funds. Many more well-wishers have donated towards this project, and we have also spent from our own earnings. We have spent about Rs 1.7 crore on thetheatre school so far. As better ideas are pitched, we update the in the premises, he said.

Tamil Nadu govt forms agri schemes publicity committee

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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 headed by a deputy director of agriculture (information and training) has drawn representatives from wings like Marketing“>Agricultural Marketing and agri business, Horticulture and Plantation Crops, agricultural engineering, Tamil Nadu Watershed Development Agency, commissionerate of sugar, Tamil Nadu Agriculture University, director of seed certification, said an order issued by the agriculture secretary C Samayamoorthy.

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.

Tamil Nadu cuts Sidco land rates to achieve $1 trillion economy goal

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The on Tuesday slashed the prices of plots at variousSidco(Small Industries Development Corporation) estates acrossTamil Naduto make them affordable for MSMEs to establish industrial units. The move is aimed at improving industrial investments in the state to achieve chief ministerM K Stalin’s target of making Tamil Nadu a $1 trillion economy by 2030.
The price reduction, which ranged between 5% and 50%, went up to 75% in some places. In Chennai and its three neighbouring districts, the plot prices were retained at 2016-17 land rate level.

In three recent industrial conclaves held in Chennai and Coimbatore, the state government had signed MoUs with various companies for investments valued at more than 1 lakh crore.

Unlike Sipcot that caters to large industries and whose board determines the cost of industrial plots, Sidco has to sell industrial plots as per the norm set by the Tamil Nadu government. Earlier, the price of Sidco plots were hiked by an Average of 10% to 15% every year based on guideline value, notional increase over previous year, notional increase based on Simple Interest for three different categories of industrial estates, and location of the estates.

Tamil Nadu: Study, document slender loris habitat to prepare a management plan, says Experts

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In the wake of ear-marking a sanctuary for the endangered slender loris, wildlife experts have urged the to carry out a detailed study and documentation of the habitat of the nocturnal primate and prepare a management plan.

A protocol should be issued to monitor the slender lorises and to create awareness among people residing in and around the reserved forests and also those dependent on these forests. Activists and experts said that habitat loss has already driven the Population into isolation. Trees being cut for furniture and firewood has resulted in reduced canopy. “Conserving the scrub forests of Eastern Ghats can only help the long-term conservation of slender lorises.

The state brought down the health outlay by Rs 487 crore for the 2021 budget from the former AIADMK governments Rs 19,420 crore in the interim budget by slashing needless expenses such as allocation of salaries for nurses who havent been appointed and judicious spending in purchase of medical supplies for government hospitals, health minister Ma Subramanian said.

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The state also cut down on spending towards PPE kits, masks, boarding and lodging charges for doctors, nurses and Health workers, he said. The state has been sanctioned more than Rs 800 crore as Covid recovery package by the Union Government and has proposed to add 4,900 nurses for various health schemes. All these allocations will appear in the revised estimate, he said.

Birth Anniversary of V. O. Chidambaram Pillai

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Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi commemorated the freedom fighter V. O. Chidambaram Pillai on the 150th anniversary of his birth.

About V. O. Chidambaram Pillai:

He was Born on September 5, 1872, Pillai is popularly acknowledged as Kappalottiya Tamizhan or The Helmsman

His most memorable thing is that he braved huge difficulties, Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company, to challenge the British monopoly in maritime trade.

He and Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company (SSNC) launched the first domestic Indian shipping service between Tuticorin and Colombo to compete with British ships.

Pillai’s ambitions -although Services are limited to Tuticorin and Colombo, Swadeshi’s goal is to “popularize the art of navigation” in the “Oriental countries”, hire “Asian”, open a shipyard, and do everything in its power to revitalize the Indian maritime tradition .

Tuticorin Port Trust, one of Indias 13 primary Ports, is named after him.

Play on V. O. Chidambaram Pillai: Desabhaktar Chidambaranar

Film on his life: Kappalottiya Tamizhan

TheTamil Naduschool education department will give month-wise assignments to students studying from Class I to X to fill the gap in teaching learning process and to achieve uniformity in learning outcomes. The assignments will vary from preparing greeting cards to simple experiments to book reviews.

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The department also directed the headmasters to maintain the number of assignments submitted by students unit wise.

For upper primary classes (VI to VIII), the project will be testing comprehensive skills like simple experimentation, composition writing, creating portfolios and sharing their experiences on some trips and letter writing. For secondary students (Classes IX and X), writing assignments on given topics, book review, doing simple experiments with available low cost materials.