TAMILNADU

TheIndian Oil CorporationLimited (Iocl), Chennai, has committed to invest Rs 54,000 crore in various projects in Nadu in the next few years, including a 9 MMTPA (million metric tonnes per annum) grass-root refinery at an estimated cost of Rs 35,580 crore, its executive director and state head (TN & Puducherry) V C Asokan said.

This new refinery, which will come up on about 1,300 acres of land in Nagapattinam, will produce petrol and diesel for BS-VI specifications and also polypropylene. The world’s second-largest integrated lubes complex at Ammullaivoyal village for Rs 1,398 crore apart, the IOCL has planned to lay product pipelines (Rs 2,600 crore), gas pipelines including LPG (Rs 2,225 crore), CGD projects (Rs 7,570 crore), open new retail outlets and launch a modernisation programme (Rs 2,500 crore), build a captive POL/LPG jetty at Kamrajar port (Rs 921 crore), establish a terminal at Vallur (for Rs 724 crore) and set up a new terminal at Asanur (for Rs 466 crore), he said.

India’s largest fuel refiner and retailer has commenced blending bio-diesel with diesel at Sankari terminal and will be starting from Asanur soon, followed by Coimbatore.

International Aerospace Manufacturing (IAMPL), a joint venture between Rolls-Royce and Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the government of Naduto set up new manufacturing facilities in Hosur.
The MoU was signed in the presence of TN chief ministerMK Stalinand will facilitate expansion of IAMPLs manufacturing operations through single window clearances and incentives. IAMPL intends to expand its operations in Tamil Nadu with an eye on the global supply chain. The MoU was announced on the sidelines of the Tamil Nadu Investment Conclave 2022.

Established in 2010, IAMPL is a 50/50 joint venture between Rolls-Royce and Hal for the manufacturing of high precision aero engine compressor, gas turbine parts. IAMPL has now evolved to become a fully-accredited benchmark facility within the high performing aero-engine global supply chain.

Erode-basedKongu Engineering Collegehas bagged the Union governments grant worth Rs 1 crore to conductresearch on Waste Management technologies.

The college has proposed to convert plastic wastes into fuel and char through hydrothermal liquefaction process. It had submitted the proposal, titled Design and Development of Continuous High-pressure Screw Reactor for Alkali Catalyzed Hydrothermal Co-liquefaction of Plastic Wastes in Lignocellulosic , to the technology development programme of theministry of science and technologylast November.

TheTamil Nadu Agricultural University(TNAU) has received a patent from the office of the controller general of patents, designs, and trademarks of theministry of commerceand for Dual-purposeAgricultural Implement.

The implement is designed for weed management and earthing-up operations. The equipment includes ground wheel, blade, prong, main frame and smooth handle. There are two ground wheels for smooth movement of the machine, a press release from TNAU said. The working blade is at the bottom of the equipment to cut Weeds and provide sliding action, so that the root may not stick to the blade.

Nadu school Education departmentofficials did not attend a meeting called by Union education minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank to discuss the National Education Policy 2020.

A couple of days ago, theTamil Naduschool education department received an email from the Union education ministry asking school education department officials to attend a meeting on Monday to discuss online education during Covid -19 and the status ofNEPimplementation.

International hockey will return to the city after a gap of 16 years with the mens Asian Championship, to be held here at the SDAT-Mayor Radhakrishnan Stadium in the last week of August this year. The mens Asia Cup hockey championship in 2007 was the last international hockey event that happened in Chennai.

The dates for the event have not been finalised yet but itll tentatively be held in the last week of August. Representatives from Hockey India have inspected the SDAT-Mayor Radhakrishnan Stadium and suggested a few things to change. We will make all the necessary changes (such as re-laying the astro-turf) and get the stadium ready on time, Naduminister for youth welfare andsportsdevelopmentUdhayanidhi Stalintold the media during an interaction.

International hockey will return to the city after a gap of 16 years with the mens Asian Championship, to be held here at the SDAT-Mayor Radhakrishnan Stadium in the last week of August this year. The mens Asia Cup hockey championship in 2007 was the last international hockey event that happened in Chennai.

The dates for the event have not been finalised yet but itll tentatively be held in the last week of August. Representatives from Hockey India have inspected the SDAT-Mayor Radhakrishnan Stadium and suggested a few things to change. We will make all the necessary changes (such as re-laying the astro-turf) and get the stadium ready on time,Tamil Naduminister for youth welfare andSports“>sportsdevelopmentUdhayanidhi Stalintold the media during an interaction

TheTamil NaduTemple Employees Association urged the to allow temples — which have the facilities to ensure adherence toCovid-19norms — to conduct festivals.

The government has banned temple events and religious congregations in view of a surge in Covid-19 cases.

Also, many temples in the state have special trusts formed for funding the rituals during the festivals.

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

The minister was speaking after inspecting the progress of the scheme in ward number 8 in K Abishekapuram zone of theTrichy Corporation.

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

The country’s startup ecosystem is very urban-centric and male-centric and with a view to bring in , the TN government is working on a specific policy to help promote Women-led and rural communities-oriented startups, TN MSME secretary Arun Roy said.

The policies will help provide more Entrepreneurship opportunities among women and also focus on deep tech ventures that have impact and use in rural areas. Tamil Nadu Startup and Innovation mission (Tansim) has set up regional hubs to address this issue.

Chief ministerM K Stalin said the will put an end to online gaming soon.
Intervening during the debate on the motion to thank governors address to the assembly, the chief minister said the previousAIADMKregime had enactedTamil Nadu Gamingand Police Laws (Amendment) Act, 2021, which was declared ultra vires of the Constitution by the Madras High Court.

Earlier, AIADMK MLA R Vaithlingam drew the attention of theHouseto the recent suicides of a bank official and his family in Chennai due to online gaming, while the AIADMK regime led byJ Jayalalithaahad destroyed the lotteries and kandhi vatti (Money lending) in the state.