The consortium aims at developing an end-to-end atmanirbhar ecosystem for next-generation space technologies including rapid launch capability, satellite design and assembly, sensors, future generation Communication like 6G, security of
satellites, ground stations, data processing, assimilation for communication and geo spatial application sectors.TAMILNADU
Chief ministerM K Stalinon Wednesday announced that Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board set up to improve the lives of poor will henceforth be known asTamil Nadu Urban Habitat Development Board.
The chief minister said the board was formed by former chief minister M Karunanidhi during his first stint in Fort St George in 1970. He built thousands of tenements for the poor which was appreciated by former Union minister Jagjivan Ram, affectionately called Babuji.Babujialso expressed his wish to see such a scheme being followed by all
states. To that extent, the slum clearance board has been effectively extending its service, Stalin said.The renaming of the board was being done with to uplift the livelihood of the people living in huts and raise their standard of living, not just removing the huts, the chief minister said.
The slum clearance board, a pioneer in providing housing to urban poor, has programmed 9.53 lakh tenements and individuals under Housing for All scheme for the urban slum/poor
families before 2030. The board implements various housing schemes, including in-situ tenement schemes, integrated townships, construction of houses by the beneficiaries and reconstruction of dilapidated tenements.‘Tamil Nadu to announce Samadhan scheme soon’
The will announce the Samadhan-scheme”>SAMADHAN Scheme for value added tax (VAT) regime within two to three weeks, said minister for finance and human Resources management Dr Palanivel Thiaga Rajan in Coimbatore.
Addressing the gathering at the special interaction session organised
by the Confederation of Indian Industry and Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry-Coimbatore here, he said that the Samadhan scheme will soon be launched to settle the pending dues under VAT and other legacy legislations.Reacting to one of the questions claiming the executives deputed at the backend of GST helpline respond only in Hindi, the minister said he would escalate this issue to the Centre and claimed 80 per cent of the funds by the Union Government are not reaching MSMEs properly.
SAMVEDAN 2021 – IIT Madras and Sony India to Host
IIT Madras Pravartak Technologies Foundation and Sony India Software Centre Pvt Ltd have joined hands to organise a national-level hackathon named SAMVEDAN 2021 Sensing solutions for Bharat. With this hackathon, the basis ambitions to encourage citizens to use IoT Sensor Board in order to remedy India-specific issues of societal interest.
It is primarily based on
the Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporations SPRESENSE Board, which participants can use for this challenge. A group with a maximum of three participants can register for the grand challenge, held in three stages.Indias first offshore wind energy to come up off Tamil Nadu coast
India will add 58 GW of capacity over the next seven years at an Investment of over 4 lakh crore. This would take the cumulative installed capacity of onshore wind energy to 100 GW as part of the Centres plan to create 500 GW of non-fossil fuel based installed capacity by 2030. Currently, 42.8 GW of onshore wind energy has been installed.
On the other hand, the Union ministry of new & RENEWABLE ENERGY will float a tender for seabed licensing to setup 4 GW of India’s firstoffshore wind energyoffTamil Nadu coastbefore the end of CY2023.
Meanwhile, Union ministry of new & renewable energy is tapping the offshore wind energy potential and identified 14 sites, each with a capacity to install one GW, off theTamil Naducoast in the Gulf of Mannar. Tenders would be floated before the end of this year for the seabed license, wherein the successful
bidder would prepare the detailed project report in five years. In the first phase, bids would be for leasing out 4GW of power through open access, captive, bi-lateral third party sale and merchant sale.Tamil Nadu’s Namakkal district ranks 2nd in country in water conservation
Nadu’sNamakkaldistrict has been ranked second in the conservation and management of Resources“>Water Resources in the country for the year 2022.
District collector Shreya P Singh said they had implemented measures to conserve and manage water
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