TAMILNADU

Delta farmers have requested chief minister M K Stalin and the Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture minister to hold a consultative meeting with farmers associations before presenting the agriculture budget in the assembly so as to ensure that the government addresses the long-standing demands of farmers.

The farmers also wanted the chief minister to instruct district collectors to first organize such meetings at the district level, especially in delta districts, before calling the state-level meeting.

With officials busy preparing the budget components for 2023-24, this was the right time to invite farmers representatives to discuss various issues related to the progress of the farming community before preparing the budget.

With an aim to include students in the decision-making process, the school Education department has sent an internal Communication to all district chief education officers directing them to set up a students council in all the schools.

The project will take shape with the help of teachers and the members of a few NGOs.

Every school must have a school management committee (SMC) mandated under the Right to Education (RTE) Act, 2009, which should have parents and representatives of the local body as members to enable interaction with teachers and school education department officials to fulfill the requirement of the school and children. The SMC is a 20-member committee with a convener and a joint convener.

The event, attended among others by Ministers K N Nehru, Thangam Thennarasu, Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi and Tiruchirappalli Mayor M Anpahagan, was inaugurated at the Pappakurichi Government Girls Higher Secondary school, Kattur.

Also, the Chief Minister flagged off 100 mobile science and mathematics laboratories on behalf school Education department to stimulate the scientific temper among students.
They would teach students science experiments and mathematics, on a monthly basis, with proper guidance, and display science tools made by students.

The scheme will be implemented at an estimated cost of Rs 25 crore to benefit 25 lakh government school students.

About 710 STEM facilitators have been selected across Nadu to implement this programme and they will act as mobile science and mathematics experimenters.

Naduis exploring the possibility of developing flagship housing projects in collaboration withSingaporefirms, minister for finance and human resource managementPalanivel Thiaga Rajanhas said.

Participating in a panel discussion Partnering with Tamil Nadu for Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, organized as part of NTU Singapore – CII Singapore – India Dialogue, on Tuesday, he said there is a cultural and natural connect between Singapore and Tamil Nadu to collaborate in a few areas.
Several firms from the city-state including GIC and Ascendas, now CapitaLand, have invested in real estate assets and REITS in TN in the past.

School Education minister Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi said in Trichy that the school education department identified 1.28 lakh school dropouts in the past five months and have enrolled them back in the school education system.

He said that the drive to bring back school dropouts during the outbreak of Covid-19 would continue even after the schools reopen.

Teachers have identified the children who had migrated to other districts and alerted their counterparts for follow-up. Students have been identified from all types of schools including government-aided, matriculation and CBSE schools. The students could be identified after their names fell in the common pool in the education management information system (EMIS). If a student was given a transfer certificate and the student hasn’t joined any other school for a certain period, the name of the student will go to the common pool.

A free online tool – AgriAdapt – was launched on Tuesday to helpfarmersand Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture value-chain entities understand risks and make Climate-smart decisions.

The World Resources Institute (WRI), in collaboration with the National Agro Foundation (NAF), developed the tool. chief general managerT Venkatakrishnasaid the tool would help farmers mitigate risk of Climate Change.

It will help farmers understand risks, exposure, vulnerabilities and challenges related to climate change and guide them and other entities in the value-chain to take better decisions.

The eight-member GoM for GST System Reforms will have Maharashtra deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar as the convenor. Besides Thiaga Rajan, the other members include Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia and Haryana deputy chief minister Dushyant Chautala as well as finance ministers from the states of Andhra Pradesh, Odisha and Assam among others.

Land registrations had been affected for four months during the first wave of Covid-19 last year.

During the meeting, Stress was laid on steps to be taken for increasing the revenue as revival for registration offices was faster than in 2020.

The pandemic year of fiscal 2020-21 recorded revenue to the tune of Rs. 10,643 crore through stamp duty and registration fee between April 2020 and March 2021. The income was less by around 3.6% the corresponding financial year of 2019-2020 when Rs 11,028 crore was generated as revenue.

According to sources, officials were directed to ensure that properties of temples under the jurisdictional control of the Hindu religious and charitable endowments department, water bodies and poramboke land are not being registered underSection 22-Aof the Registration ( Nadu Amendment) Act. TheActfacilitates re-registration of plots, if the earlier land transaction refers to it as ‘house site’. Returning the documents on the same day to arrest any delay, measures to curb staff reporting late to office and progress of the recently launched grievance control room were also reviewed, sources added.

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.