TAMILNADU

Nadugovernor R NRavi said politics has become so overwhelming that it has divided people on linguistic lines.
Even while endorsing the state re-organisation based on linguistic lines, he said it should not divide people. He was interacting with a delegation of students fromBiharunder ‘Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat’ programme. Stressing the need for unity, he urged students to ignore differences based on language, religion, caste and ethnicity.

He said states were created for administrative convenience after the Britishers left India. States were reorganised along linguistic lines in 1956 to ensure that the governments understood the language of the people. But unfortunately, politics has become overwhelming that we have started identifying ourselves as Tamilians, Biharis, Kannadigas, Malayalis, etc.,” he said.

Lessons learnt during last years lockdown are seemingly helping large industries in Nadu handle production during the second wave of the infection.

However, smaller businesses, especially MSMEs who are yet to come out of debts of the first wave, feel any further downturn will create a huge dent in their balance sheets.

From vaccinating senior workers, arranging transportation, sourcing raw materials, providing accommodation near factory premises and re-aligning operations, big companies are confident of overcoming the current tide.

The life story of DMK president and Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin has been launched by Rahul Gandhi, the Congress leader.

Highlights

The autobiography is titled “Ungalil Oruvan” (One Among You).

The autobiography was released by Tejashwi Yadav, the Opposition Leader in the Bihar Assembly, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, and National Conference leader Omar Abdullah.

Duraimurugan, the state Resources“>Water Resources Minister and a senior DMK politician received the first copy of the book.

MK Stalin

MK Stalin is the eighth and current Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu.

Stalin has been the president of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) party since 28 August 2018.

He was the first Deputy Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu from 2009 to 2011 and the 37th Mayor of Chennai from 1996 to 2002. He is the son of former CM and Politician M. Karunanidhi.

He was rated 30th on The Indian Express’s list of India’s Most Powerful People in 2019.

He was the campaign manager for the Secular Progressive Alliance in the 2021 Assembly Elections. They gained 159 seats out of 234 seats, giving the DMK a majority of 132 seats.

In May 2021, he was sworn in as the

Sandwich courses in several disciplines to engage in industrial training for six months each in IV and VII semesters will make students job-ready

The Directorate of Technical Education (DoTE), Nadu, in its N series of curriculum revisions, plans to increase the quality of polytechnic education so that the students become employable and get better salaries.

The students will be analysed for the primary skills, knowledge, attitudes, and technical competencies gained after the course.The curriculum design is planned by introducing relevant sandwich courses, current as well as future job roles of the sector, and collating appropriate content, and hands-on Learning experiences,

In Chennai, the Nadu government unveiled the “CM Dashboard Tamil Nadu 360,” a monitoring system for the Chief Minister (CM).

Highlights

It will allow CM to keep track of all welfare schemes, including their implementation status, fund allocation, and a number of beneficiaries, as well as information on water storage in Dams and rainfall patterns.

This dashboard will provide real-time information on all State Government departments, storage levels of key reservoirs, rainfall patterns.

It also has a price mesh that monitors price stability across 25 foodgrains, vegetables, and fruits, as well as projections on potential price increases, allowing for government intervention.

Aside from that, the first set of dashboards will include information on current EMPLOYMENT trends, civil supplies, and the Chief Minister’s Helpline.

The dashboard also includes the status of CM in Your Constituency petitions, Health-related information, daily Police reports of major crimes in the State with reference to districts that require attention, housing progress for the urban and rural poor, and progress of water supply schemes, particularly tap connections to all households.