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Free birth certificates for their children below 5 years in April and May
Posted by ganesh in Communication, Departments, Health, Home, Information, Public, Survey, government, programme, tamilnadu on April 27th, 2010
The Tamil Nadu government has appealed to the public to avail of a scheme to get free birth certificates for their children below five years in April and May.
In a release, Principal Secretary for Health Department V K Subburaj said that since 2009 the authorities were furnishing free birth certificates during these two months at all registration centres.
As many as 77,691 children got their certificates during this drive last year, he said.
Nalini’s phone calls being checked: Minister
Posted by ganesh in Communication, Departments, Information, Mobiles, Other, Politics, Survey, cheating, government, illegal on April 22nd, 2010
Tamil Nadu Law Minister Durai Murugan on Wednesday informed the State Assembly that call details of a mobile phone seized from the cell in which Rajiv Gandhi murder convict Nalini Sriharan was lodged was being probed.
Replying to a call attention motion by Vellore Congress MLA C Gnanasekaran, Durai Murugan said Nalini had thrown the mobile phone into the toilet on seeing the prison authorities coming for an inspection. The mobilephone and the two SIM cards had been seized, he said.
“We will come to know about whom Nalini had contacted only after thorough inquiry,” he added. Cell phone detectors which will identify possession of mobile phones and contraband inside the jail would be provided in all prisons, he further said.
Meanwhile, Nalini, according to reports, has alleged that the phone reportedly seized from her cell on Tuesday was planted by prison staff to frame her.
Identify ‘out-of-school’ children survey cover migrant workers
Posted by ganesh in Communication, Departments, Education, Home, Information, Madurai, Public, Survey, government, programme, student on April 6th, 2010
Hundreds of block resource teacher educators, block resource centre supervisor, education volunteers and anganwadi workers fanned out across the district, even to remote corners, on Monday to identify ‘out-of-school’ children. The survey will also cover migrant workers.
The survey, which will end on April 14, is being undertaken by the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA)-Tamil Nadu, to gear up for implementing the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 that makes elementary education an entitlement for children in the of 6 to 14. The Act, which came into force on April 1, makes it binding on the part of the State governments and local bodies to ensure that all children attended school.
COMPREHENSIVE SURVEY
According to K. Sridevi, Additional Chief Educational Officer, SSA, the survey will form the primary database to implement the Act.
It would be comprehensive and ensure that no child was left out of the survey.
Intervention programmes would be implemented as per budget allocations. The survey would also cover Corporation areas, Ms. Sridevi said.
Enumerators in the field told The Hindu that around 310 ‘out-of-school’ children were found on day one of the survey.
The teachers in the primary school of the respective habitation would counsel their parents to send their wards back to school.
The teachers would be aided by a Village Education Committee, which would be headed by the panchayat president. Children, thus identified, would be admitted to schools and some of them would be identified for special measures that could last between three months to one year to help them cope up.
Residential facilities would also be offered. The entire cost of the programme would be borne by the SSA. Once the survey was completed, all the children identified would be enrolled into schools.
They would be photographed and the data uploaded into a computer network to prevent duplication.
The SSA officials would also follow up the progress periodically, sources said.
Five uncopied inscriptions belonging to 13th, 14th and 15th centuries have been discovered
Posted by ganesh in Communication, Culture, Information, Survey, Trichy, programme on March 18th, 2010
Five uncopied inscriptions belonging to 13th, 14th and 15th centuries have been discovered from the Paravatagiriswarar Temple at Kundrandarkovil in Pudukottai district by research scholars of Dr. M. Rajamanikkanar Centre for Historical Research, Tiruchi.
The inscriptions belong to the Pandyas of the second Empire and the Vijayanagara dynasty.
All the inscriptions were discovered from the walls of the inner prakara, maha mandapa and the pillars in the prakara during an explorative study conducted by a team of scholars led by M. Nalini, Associate Professor, Department of History, Seethalakshmi Ramaswami College, said R. Kalaikkovan, Director, Dr. M. Rajamanikkanar Centre for Historical Research. The research team included S. Sumitha, M.P. Nandhini and P. Loganathan.
A much defaced inscription engraved during the 20th reignal year of Vira Pandya (13th century AD) records the creation of a special service at the temple by Sundarapandya Brahmaraya and Karaperumal with the concurrence of the Nattar of Irattai Malai Nadu and Velan Nadu.
An undated inscription records the gift of a fallow land at Kunrakkudi by Adavai Singan alias Porkoyil Velan of Nerpukkai towards lighting a special lamp and a regular lamp. Through this inscription it is understood that Kundrandarkovil was formerly know as Kunrakkudi. The deity is referred to as Mahadeva of Kunrakkudi. Palaegraphically, the inscription could be dated to 14th century AD, Dr. Kalaikkovan said.
Another inscription belonging to the period of Sundara Pandya reveals that Kunrakkudi and all Devadana lands of the presiding deity gifted towards various endowments at various periods was under the custody of Vadukan Maduraikku Vaitha Pandya Thevar, an important officer in the palace of Sundara Pandya.
FURTHER STUDIES
An undated pillar inscription records the name of Ayyam Perumal as the dance teacher of the temple, which still has a dance hall. Another inscription that is partially hidden behind by a huge sign board, records the gifts made towards worship at the temple. This inscription belongs to the period of Malligarjuna, a King of Vijayanagara dynasty, Dr. Kalaikkovan said. Further studies would throw more light on the by-gone era,
Seized Several Lakhs of Boxes of Drugs with altered Expiry dates.
Posted by ganesh in Chennai, Departments, Health, Information, Other, Raid, Survey, cheating, government, illegal on March 12th, 2010
The Drug Controller office, in a raid conducted over the last couple of days, has seized several lakhs of boxes of drugs with altered expiry dates.
“We got intelligence that such a racket was afoot in the city and based on this we conducted a massive raid in Chennai. Twelve teams raided 20–25 places, including pharmacies,” M. Baskaran, Director, Drug Control, said. Several blisters of drugs and bottles with date of expiry altered were found.
A retailer with wholesale licence was apprehended as was an unlicensed agent involved in distribution. The date on the blisters, whose expiry date was over, was removed using a solution and a new date printed on them.
Forest office officials 100 logs of red sandalwood seized
Forest office officials confiscated an abandoned van laden with 100 logs of natural red sandalwood weighing four tonnes at Pillayarchatram , near Kancheepuram, in the early hours of Thursday.
Acting on a tip-off received by district forest head, Nihar Ranjan, a team led by forest range officer T V Jeyachandran, identified the culprit vehicle and followed it in an attempt to arrest the driver and his helper.
“But both of them made good their escape because we were driving half a km behind them, and the heavy traffic slowed down our progress.” Nihar Ranja denied rumors that shots were fired at the vehicle, but the rear wheel of the van was flattened during the 20-km hot chase.
Wildlife census operation at the Mudumalai Tiger Survey,closed Feb 19-25
Posted by ganesh in Communication, Culture, Departments, Ooty(Udhagamandalam), Other, Survey, government, programme on February 13th, 2010
Forest officials and volunteers participating in a wildlife census operation at the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve near Ooty.
The Mudumalai Tiger Reserve (MTR) near here will remain closed between February 19 and 25. Stating this here on Friday the Field Director, MTR Rajiv K.Srivastava said that it was to facilitate the conduct of the 2nd All India Tiger, Co-predators, prey species census and habitat monitoring and Phase 1 data collection exercise from February 20 to 25.
Among the participants would be members of the Nilgiri Wildlife and Environment Association (NWLEA), the World Wide Fund for Nature, students of the Government Arts College doing Wildlife, Biology and Geology and Biotechnology and other non governmental organizations..
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