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M. Karunanidhi will declare open super specialty hospital on Aug 20
Posted by ganesh in Information, Public, Salem, budget, function, government, hospital, programme on August 10th, 2010
Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi will declare open a slew of projects including the Rs. 139-crore super specialty hospital and Rs. 35-crore Integrated Collectorate Complex in Salem on August 20. He will also address a public meeting later in the evening.
WEDDING
Agriculture Minister Veerapandi S. Arumugam, talking to reporters here on Monday, said that the Chief Minister after solemnizing the wedding of his son in the morning, would later participate at the Government function in which he would lay foundation stones for new projects, inaugurate the finished ones and distribute assistance under various welfare schemes – all to the tune of Rs. 950 crore. The super specialty hospital completed at a cost of Rs. 139.31 crore had come up on 4.48 lakh square feet of land worth Rs. 229 crore in the heart of the city.
The minister said that the hospital had been brought to Salem from Tiruchi after the intervention of the Chief Minister himself. Mr. Arumugam said that the government had also sanctioned a sum of Rs. 15 crore for new buildings for the Commercial Taxes Office.
TENDERS
He said that tenders also had been finalised for the Dedicated Water Supply scheme for Salem city to be taken up at a cost of Rs. 283 crore.
Construction works for providing infrastructure for the Information Technology Park will be taken
Posted by ganesh in Departments, Information Technology (IT), Salem, government, programme on December 11th, 2009
Agriculture Minister Veerapandi S. Arumugam (centre) inspecting arrangements for the IT Park function scheduled to be held in Salem
Construction works for providing infrastructure for the Information Technology Park will be taken up on Friday.
Salem district administration has organised a function for the same in which Agriculture Minister Veerapandi S. Arumugam and IT Minister Poongothai Aladi Aruna would participate.
Inspecting the site here, Mr. Arumugam said that ELCOT, the nodal agency for the IT Park had already allotted a sum of Rs 9.44 crore for the building works.
The Park was coming up on 53-acre land on the Salem-Bangalore National Highways, which also was closer to the city and its airport.
The Minister after inspecting the works, pointed out that the works would be completed as per the schedule.
He asked ELCOT officials to take necessary action to relocate the existing electric poles on the Park site.
ELCOT Managing Director Santosh Babu would present a project report at the function in which Salem Collector J. Chandrakumar, District Revenue Officer M. Rajarathinam and others would participate.
Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi had laid foundation stone for the IT Park and special economic zone (SEZ) some two years ago.
Badly-damaged Mannarpalayam Road inconveniences residents in Salem Corporation
The Mannarpalayam Road that connects several residential colonies with Salem city has remained severely battered for a long time, putting a large number of residents to hardship.
Gaping potholes and huge craters have emerged on the stretch, posing serious danger to vehicle users.
Office-goers and students, who frequently use the road, are the worst affected.
Patchwork
“The road has got damaged so quickly because of poor maintenance by the Salem Corporation. The civic officials have not even taken up patchwork on the road for the past several months,” residents in the area charged.
People had repeatedly represented this issue to the civic officials and councillor of the ward.
“As we have received poor response from them, we have also approached the higher authorities at the Corporation main office. But we are yet to see any fruitful action from the civic administration for the repair of the road,” residents said.
The number of accidents reported on the road has gone up significantly in the recent years as it turned unmotorable.
Bad condition
Many inner roads like the Mannarpalayam road in the city remain in bad condition for long.
The civic administration was attending to repairs only on the main roads, citizens complained.
Various civic issues were highlighted at the council meeting
Posted by ganesh in Uncategorized on December 1st, 2009
Councillors arguing with Mayor J. Rekha Priyadarshini at the council meeting in Salem.
Various civic issues were highlighted at the Salem Corporation’s council meeting here on Monday.
The Opposition councillors pointed out that many development schemes were remaining only on paper.
AIADMK’s Balasubramanian insisted that the meeting should be conducted with minute books.
“But the practice is not followed even in this meeting too,” he said and added that nothing but a drama under the name of council meeting was being enacted.
He also went near the well and raised the issue for which councillors from other parties opposed. Commotion prevailed for a short while.
Schemes
Later, members of various parties told the house that many schemes were implemented in the city with the help of all. DMK’s Mohan pointed out that the Under Ground Drainage scheme was one among them.
DMK councillor Palanisamy said that many of those who had taken the shops of the Corporation through auction had sub-rented the same for higher rents, which, he said, was illegal.
Corporation Commissioner K.S. Palanisamy, in his reply, said that the civic body had handed over a list of names of those who had taken the shops to all. He also said that he would inquire into the allegations.
Mayor J. Rekha Priyadarshini said that the next meeting could decide on how and what action could be taken against them.
Higher education must ensure character-building and ethics says IIT-Madras Director
IIT Madras Director M.S. Ananth handing over the degree certificate to a student at the Graduation Day of Vinayaka Mission’s Kirupananda Variyar Engineering College in Salem
Higher education must ensure character-building and ethics among students since today’s web-based technical education does not inculcate such traits, said M. S. Anand, Director, IIT – Madras.
Delivering the convocation address of the Vinayaka Mission’s Kirupananda Variyar Engineering College at Periya Seeragapadi on Sunday, Mr. Anand pointed out that industrial education could put stress on the know-how approach, which in turn would worry educationists of the country.
Components
Education had three components such as ‘Knowledge, Know-how and Character’ among which the last-mentioned one was essential.
“Our education system has evolved from ‘gurukkul,’ system in which students stayed in ‘gurukkuls’ where character-building and ethical standards were essentially taught.
Later it transformed into a monastery type in which the learning process had been, to some extent, democratised,” he said.
Then it had evolved into a printing and industrial education, which underscored the know-how approach only.
The IT revolution had prompted the students to have search engine-based knowledge sourcing from their houses.
Mr. Anand asked the students to base their career on truth and fearlessness as Gandhiji had propagated during the large and only non-violent Independent movement, which was unique in the world.
The country chose what was right such as secularism and democracy. It survived many drawbacks and achieved great results particularly after Green, White and Brown revolutions, which fed its millions.
India as a country was dynamic with its manufacturing and service sectors showing signs of tremendous development.
In fact manufacturing industry had recorded 12 per cent growth and would emerge as a leading sector in the country in 25 years from now. Here we have the ‘gun and butter’ dialogue spending on defence and development equally.
He asked the teachers to be facilitators of learning with constant update and wanted the students to be ‘future challengers,’ to lead the country in the days to come.
He said good institutions had produced students with good character.
Principal A. Nagappan in his presidential address pointed out that the institution had facilitated students to become professionals.
He said that 722 engineering students, 202 post graduates and seven research scholars were conferred degrees.
Vice-president N. V. Chandrasekar and Director N. Ramasamy were present at the function.
Citizens oppose proposal to change name of Bretts Road in Salem
What’s in a name, the Bard asked. Everything is in a name if it carries a historical and heritage value, say the citizens of Salem.
Reacting to the reports that there is a proposal to rename Bretts Road, a thoroughfare in the city as ‘Central Library Road,’ people in Salem, cutting across different affiliations, have urged the politicians and officials to retain the name.
Bretts Road connects today’s city with that of a distant colonial past.
The city, once a garrison for the British, still takes pride in preserving many signposts of that past, including buildings and churches.
It remembers its British collectors and soldiers who had laid down their lives in the battles against Hyder Ali and his son Tippu Sultan.
It also longingly retains the colonial flavour.
It even today boasts of its many thoroughfares named after those great officers of British Empire.
Harry Augustus Bretts, after whose name stands today’s Bretts Road, was the collector of the integrated Salem district between 1853 and 1862.
He was a great administrator who brought in sweeping reforms in land taxes.
He levied less tax for poor yielding lands under ‘Less Fertile’ classification.
It was he who abolished the sukavasi inam (free lands for living), a free distribution of lands to Brahmins and Muslims in the district and instead introduced samathuvapuram concept by making all people live in all places amicably.
Bretts was also responsible for bringing out the first government gazette.
He brought out The Salem Gazette in 1859. Historian Le Fanu called Bretts a man of impeccable character and straight forward in administration and deliverance of justice and architect of many people welfare schemes.
Importance
J. Barnabas, general secretary, Salem Historical Society, told The Hindu that changing the old names would deprive the generation of today of knowing their historical importance.
He and city’s elite including physicians, industrialists and social activists have also made appeals to Agriculture Minister Veerapandi S. Arumugam, Deputy Chief Minister M. K. Stalin and Mayor J. Rekha Priyadarshini to take steps to retain the name of Bretts for the road.
Launched an intense passenger safety awareness campaign
Southern Railways, Railway Protection Force (RPF) and Railway Police (RP), as a part of their combined State-wide exercise on security aspects, launched an intense passenger safety awareness campaign here on Thursday.
Senior officers led by IG of Police C. V. Rao and accompanied by Salem Railway Divisional Manager P. N. Ram and Salem City Police Commissioner Sunil Kumar Singh, distributed handbills to the passengers on ‘do’s and don’ts’ while travelling on trains, particularly on long-distance ones.
Presided over by Salem Railway Divisional Manager P. N. Ram and other senior officials, the IG also pasted pictorial stickers carrying detailed information to travelling passengers. He asked the policemen to remain ‘friendly’ with passengers and also alert.
The passengers were told not to accept eatables and beverages from strangers and co-passengers on travel.
Laptops should be kept locked.
People should not talk over mobiles about carrying cash and other valuables.
The police warned the passengers that modern-day thieves were well-dressed, fluent in English and also travelled in AC coaches. “Beware of them,” the officer said.
Earlier, Railway Police SP Panneerselvam held an awareness meeting on safety of travelling public in trains for policemen and officers working in Salem Railway Division from Coimbatore to Jolarpettai.
The SP said that every aspect related to a death on the rails should be carefully analysed: whether it was a pure accident, suicide or a murder.
He further pointed out that 10 persons per day were killed on tracks in Tamil Nadu, which also records 3,650 persons killed per year.
Railway Policemen from Salem, Erode, Tirupur, Coimbatore, Udhagamandalam, Pothanur, Dharmapuri, Hosur and Jolarpettai took part in the meeting.
Salem Rural SP N. M. Mayilvahanan, DC (Law and Order) Y. John Nicholson and DSP (Salem Range) Rajavel took part in the awareness campaign.
15 staff in hospital stomach pain, vomiting, nausea after taking food from SETC canteen
At least 15 employees, including technical staff and a few drivers and conductors of the State Express Transport Corporation (SETC) were admitted in the Salem Government Medical College Hospital when they complained of severe stomach pain, vomiting, nausea and head ache after taking meals in the canteen in the depot here
A few of them also swooned.
Highly placed sources in the SETC told The Hindu that the group of workers, including a few administrative staff and ground supportive technical workers, took the meals served in the canteen run by the Corporation itself at the Manakkadu depot here on Thursday afternoon.
After 15 minutes one by one had started developing nausea and vomiting. A few also swooned following which panicked senior officers rushed them to the Government hospital in a bus where they were admitted as in-patients.
The canteen according to employees would provide them only lunch at a subsidized cost.
Nearly 100 employees a majority of them technical staff used to take the meals in the noon since the shift also would begin.
A senior officials of the depot claimed that all the 58 long distance services would be operated today without any hitch.
No danger
A senior doctor on duty said that the employees were admitted for suspected food poisoning and were ‘out of danger.’ “We will keep them under observation for 24 hours before discharging them,” she said.
CITU’s Salem district secretary S. K. Thiagarajan demanded an inquiry into the incident.
Polio drops to children of migrant labourers, all in the age group of five
A total of 1,181 children including 522 children living in Sri Lankan refugee camps and 651 children of migrant labourers, all in the age group of five, were given polio drops in Salem district.
According to health officials, Tamil Nadu has been in the forefront in polio eradication through the intensive and sustained Pulse Polio campaign.
The State has not recorded any incidence of polio for the past one decade.
But the incidents of polio were reported in the States of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh from where migrant population had come to Salem for labour and livelihood.
These migrant labourers including doll makers, gypsies, construction workers, sugarcane cutters, quarry workers and others used to stay put in Salem and its neighbourhood.
Eradication
Hence to make the eradication drive a fool-proof one, the State had decided to cover the children of migrant labourers and also the children residing at refugee camps in the district. A team of doctors and para medical staff on Sunday identified 36 families in the city as ‘migrant families’ from other States and administered polio drops to as many as 651 children.
Later, another team visited the refugee camps in the district and gave drops to 522 children. A senior health official said that the second phase of polio immunisation would take place on December 13 beside the routine, two-phase mass immunisation programme, which falls on January 10, 2010 and February 7, 2010.
Nurture and promote the culture of research and development among teachers and students
N.R. Shetty, president, Indian Society for Technical Education, speaks at Sona College of Technology in Salem
Universities and education institutions in the country should nurture and promote the culture of research and development among teachers and students, Indian Society of Technical Education president N.R. Shetty has said.
Inaugurating the regional conference on ‘Strategies for enhancing research in technical institutions’ held at Sona College of Technology here on Friday, he said that a majority of the institutions in the country lacked the culture of research and development.
This had led to the lack of creativity and innovation, which ultimately resulted in lack of entrepreneurship in the country.
Developed countries such as the United States were looking at universities and technical education institutions for carrying out research.
The same was not happening in India in a bigger way. A few government agencies had recently started giving more attention to research in education institutions, he said.
The country continued to borrow new technologies from other nations, despite having huge technical manpower.
“We are not in the club of creators. This should change and more innovations should happen in the country,” he stressed.
Multi-disciplinary
Mr. Shetty also called for the multi-disciplinary research in the educational institutions.
The researchers and students now remain confined to the area of their study. But the multi-disciplinary research could bring in solutions to a number of problems in society, he said.
Nirma Technical University Vice-Chancellor N.V. Vasani called upon the teachers to focus more on research and development activities. “A good researcher could enhance the teaching and learning process,” he said.
He appealed to the managements of education institutions to allow teachers to take up research projects, he added.
College chairman C. Valliappa presided. secretary A. Dhirajlal, principal P. Govindarajan and senior officials were present.
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