TAMILNADU

TN Anti-NEET Bill

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The Nadu Anti NEET bill was passed by the state assembly in September 2021. The bill seeks to discard the requirement of NEET for medical courses in the state. The central government had made the National Eligibility cum Entrance test mandatory for all the students in the country. The bill was passed opposing this requirement.

The Tamil Nadu Governor recently returned the bill to the assembly speaker saying the bill is against the interest of the students. According to the governor the bill will affect the interests of the students from rural areas. He has also cited The Supreme Court judgement in favour of his argument. According to the SC judgement in the Christian Medical College case, cancellation of NEET in Tamil Nadu will lead to economic exploitation of poor students.

The Tamil Nadu Government wants to do away with NEET admissions. Instead it wants to provide medical and dental admissions based on the marks obtained in Class 12 examination. The admissions are provided through normalisation. Earlier, medical admissions in the state happened in this way and TN government wants to continue this.

Paddy on 20,000 acres damaged by rain in Tamil Nadu: Officials

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Besides this, 50,000 tonnes of paddy that was procured and stacked in an open stockyard of NaduCivil Supplies Corporation (TNCSC) at Sannapram near Kumbakonam got drenched in the rain.

Farmers said about 1,000 acres of samba paddy crop ripe for harvest has been submerged in Orathanadu, Pattukottai, Peravurani and Thanjavur taluks.

Paddy procured during the kuruvai season from 350 direct procurement centers (DPCs) by TNCSC has been stored in five warehouses and 24 open stockyards. Of these, the paddy bags stacked at Sannapuram stockyard have been drenched in the rain.

One in 10 bank frauds in Chennai involves insiders: Study

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As per a study, nearly one in every ten bank fraud cases in Chennai involved a banker and nearly 43% of them were brought to Police‘s attention only after one year.

This not only makes investigation difficult but also reduces the chances of recovering the , according to a government-funded study by city criminologists involving 400 fraud cases at banks. Corroborating this, official data states of the 20 cases where money involved was more than 1 cr, city police was able to recover the amount in only one case.

75,000 people get benefits under Ungal Thokuthiyil Muthalamaichar scheme in TN

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Naduchief minister M K Stalin on Friday handed over orders and various benefits to 13 beneficiaries of government welfare schemes, who submitted petitions under ‘Ungal Thokuthiyil Muthalamaichar’ scheme.

They were among the 75,818 people who benefited through the scheme (CMin your constituency) in the last 70 days, said a statement from the government.

So far, 3,51, 486 petitions have been received under the scheme and the same have been forwarded to the respective departments. Of these, 1,76, 268 have been accepted and as many as 75,818 have already been addressed. It was higher than the number of petitions (1.10lakh) received and redressed by theCM Special Cellin the last 10 years, added the release.
Out of 1.76lakh petitions, as many as 52,434 petitions were submitted seeking patta and pension under the welfare schemes implemented by the revenue and social welfare departments. A total of 35,670 petitioned, seeking allotment under the government housing schemes and basic amenities.

9 lakh names cut from TN voter list

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Naduchief electoral officer Satyabrata Sahoo said that 9,11,820 deletions had been made in the voters list, which was released recently.

Sahoo, in a statement, said the deletions were due to shifting of voters from one place to another, death and duplication of entries. As on Wednesday, the total electors in the state stood at 6,12,36,696 people. Of them, 3,11,09,813 are Women voters, 3,01,18,904 are men and 7,979 are third gender.

He said 1,23,064 people were newly included on the electoral rolls. While 51,295 voters changed their addresses, entries were corrected in the case of 2,60,103 electors.

Aquaculture company partners with Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Science University

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South India-based farm diversification integrator Aqgromalin has announced its PARTNERSHIP withTANUVAS, the first veterinary and animal sciences university in Asia (in 1989).

As part of the agreement, Aqgromalin will be inducted as a virtual (remote) incubatee into the Veterinary Incubation Foundation established atTamil NaduVeterinary and Animal Sciences University.

Aqgromalin helps provide ready to implement micro farms to animal husbandry and aquaculture farmers that can help them in improving their household income. These farms are implemented with minimal and include all necessary input Infrastructure.

Getting affiliation to become hassle-free for Tamil Nadu private schools

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More than 15,000 private schools will have hassle-free and fast approval for starting a new school, getting extension of affiliation, and permission to start additional sections and new courses as the school Education department has launched a new portal for providing these Services.

Private schools ask for recognition up to 10 years for schools which have been functioning for more than two decades, with annual renewal of sanitary, building stability and fire safety certificates.

Some 2,500 private schools which do not have the approval of the Directorate of Town and Country planning (DTCP) or local planning authority (LPA) for buildings are getting extension of approval every year.

Tamil Nadu extends online employment registration renewal drive by three months

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TheTamil Nadugovernment has extended by three months an onlinerenewal driveto enable people, who failed to renew their registration with theemployment registration officebetween 2017 and 2019. The department of labour and Skill development has issued an order in this regard.

According to officials, a total of 64.47 lakh people have registered with the EMPLOYMENT office. Of them, around 51 lakh had failed to renew their enrolment. Following this, ministerC V Ganesanon September 4 announced in the assembly that the department would launch an online renewal drive for people who had failed to renew.

The minister then said a total of 64,47,984 people had registered with the employment office. Of these, a total of 51,25,458 have not renewed their registration.

Tamil Nadu adopts resolution against Hindi

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The Naduassembly on Tuesday adopted a resolution against the “imposition” ofHindi. The resolution, piloted by chief minister M KStalin, contended that the recommendations submitted to the President on September 9, are against the state languages including Tamil.

With political outfits and students organisations continuing their anti-Hindi agitations, the Tamil Nadu assembly on Tuesday passed a resolution against Hindi “imposition”, backed by all parties, barring the BJP. The resolution said the report submitted to the President by Union Home minister Amit Shah in his capacity as chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Official Language and its recommendations were “detrimental to the people of non-Hindi speaking states, including Tamil Nadu”.

90 reservoirs have combined storage of 88%

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Heavy rains lashing acrossTamil Naduhave yielded the 90 reservoirs in the state a combined storage of 88% of their total holding capacity. Half of the 14,138 Irrigation tanks in the state have more than 50% storage as on Monday. About 20,000 cusecs of water will be released from Mettur reservoir in Salem district on Tuesday morning. Initially about 5,000 cusecs will be released and it will be stepped up in due course, said officials.

The state received excess rainfall of 43% between October 1 and November 8, with 12 districts – Ariyalur, Coimbatore, Cuddalore, Erode, Karur, Namakkal,Pudukkottai, Sivaganga, Tirunelveli, Thiruvarur, Trichy and Villupuram – registering more than 60% increase compared to the corresponding period last year. The delay in the retreat of the southwest monsoon and continuous rainfall till October end had already brought copious inflow into most water bodies. The seamless entry of northeast monsoon is adding to the storage, said a senior official. Incidentally, some 527 irrigation tanks in certain parts of the state like Tirunelveli, Dharmapuri, and Namakkal have nil storage owing to diversion of water from supply channels, poor desilting and encroachments.

The combined storage of all the reservoirs stood at 197.5 tmcft water as against a total capacity of 224.297tmcft water. With an inflow of 27,600 cusecs of water into Mettur, the dam is fast filling up. Surplus water is being released from Kabini andKrishnarajasagarreservoirs in Karnataka as both are brimming. The storage in Mullaperiyar dam on Monday was 6.735tmcft water as against a total capacity of 10.57 tmcft water. Nadu has been drawing 1,867 cusecs through tunnels.