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TN fixed fees for private self financing schools: Govt
Posted by ganesh in Assembly, Communication, Education, Health, Information, Public, competition, government, illegal, programme, student, tamilnadu on May 10th, 2010
It was seen lately that the State government of Tamil Nadu had fixed fees for 10,934 private self financing schools.
The fee structure was finalized by the Private Schools Fee Determination Committee. This committee was a constitutional panel that was appointed by the Government and had fixed the fee structure after a detailed study was conducted on different issues.
It was noted the average fees collected from each student, the total number of students and the expenditure by the school was calculated by the committee. It also included the salaries of teaching and non-teaching staff. Some other expenses like electricity and telephone charges were also taken into consideration.
The Chief Educational Officer would be fixing the fees for each individual school. On Pallikalvi.in details of the fee structure would be posted. It would be for the benefit of parents and schools. It was told by K.Govindarajan, Committee Chairperson said that the format was designed in relation with the fixing of the fees. This format was therefore, forwarded to 10,934 schools out of which 10,233 responded.
It was seen that the fee structure was fixed for 10,233 schools on the basis of income and expenditure of the schools. It was seen that if the income that was collected from the students was more than expenditures, the schools were request to reduce the fees.
State government will grant pension to transport workers
Posted by ganesh in Assembly, Departments, Health, Information, Other, Public, Transport, government, modification, programme, tamilnadu, vehicles on April 30th, 2010
The State government will grant pension to transport workers in a month, if the Centre agrees to exempt provident fund from income-tax deductions, Transport Minister K.N. Nehru told the Assembly on Thursday.
Replying to the debate on demand for grants for his department, the Minister said the accumulation of provident fund had touched Rs. 1,200 crore and 30 per cent income tax was being deducted. “We wrote to the Union Finance Minister seeking exemption from income tax deductions. But our request was not accepted. Later, States such as Rajasthan and Delhi could get exemptions. We are once again writing to the Centre. If we get the exemption, workers will get pension in one month,” the Minister said.
Mr. Nehru said the government had decided to increase the lifetime tax for four wheelers, based on the suggestion made at the Pollution Control Board meeting held in Delhi.
At the meeting it was argued that increasing tax for private vehicles alone would control vehicle population which in turn would bring down the pollution level and accidents in six cities including Chennai.
He said the tax would be 10 per cent for four wheelers costing less than Rs. 10 lakh. Fifteen per cent tax will be levied on vehicles costing more than Rs. 10 lakh. The new tax system will come into effect from June 1, 2010 and it would be suitably applied to vehicles coming to Tamil Nadu for re-registration. The Minister said the government would soon issue an order for registration of rig-mounted vehicles and tractor-driven combine harvesters in regional transport offices. Now these vehicles can be registered only after getting clearance from the government, which is causing delay.
The government also increased the solatium released from the Chief Minister’s Accident Relief Fund to victims of the road accidents and their family members. In the case of death, the amount has been increased to Rs 25,000 from Rs 10,000. For permanent disability the amount will be 10,000 instead of Rs 6,000. The amount given to permanent damage caused to eyes, hands and legs has been increased to Rs 7,000 from Rs. 4,000. For minor injuries it will be Rs.1,000 instead of Rs. 500.
Madras High Court postponed to April 19 the hearing on a plea
Posted by ganesh in Chennai, Communication, Health, Information, Other, government, illegal, release, tamilnadu on April 15th, 2010
The Madras High Court today postponed to April 19 the hearing on a plea by Rajiv Gandhi murder convict Nalini Sriharan against the Tamil Nadu government’s order on her premature release.
The State government had rejected the plea for premature release of Nalini, serving a life term in the assassination case last month. This was after the Prison Advisory Board, constituted by the government to consider Nalini’s representation, has rejected her plea on eight grounds.
Meanwhile, Nalini chose to file a plea against the State government’s decision, which came up for hearing before Justice Vasantha Kumar today, who postponed the hearing to Monday.
Conduct a Contest for College Students to increase the Tamil content in Wikipedia
Posted by ganesh in Coimbatore, College, Communication, Departments, Education, Information, Tamil Conference, government, meeting, programme, student, tamilnadu on April 1st, 2010
The State government has decided to conduct a contest for college students to increase the Tamil content in Wikipedia, the free online encyclopaedia.
The contest will be held as a prelude to the Tamil Internet Conference, which will be held concurrently along with the World Classical Tamil Conference at Coimbatore in June.
M. Anandakrishnan, chairman of the organising committee for the Internet Conference, said the competition was also to encourage the youth for trying and identifying online Tamil resources in their fields of specialisation and areas of interest. Explaining the rationale behind the contest, Professor Anandakrishnan said there were about 22,000 Tamil entries in Wikipedia, following Hindi (68,000 entries) and Telugu (47,000 entries). By deciding to hold the contest, the Tamil Nadu government was the first government to take the initiative of promoting the presence of resources in a language.
Those willing to participate in the contest should register themselves online (http:/tamilint2010.tn.gov.in) by April 30.
The word length of each entry to the contest should vary from 250 words to 500 words.
The entry should conform to Unicode. Selected entries would be hosted on the Tamil Wikipedia. More information could be had from the website http://ta.wikipedia.org.
Earlier, he presided over a meeting of the committee. Kanimozhi, Member of Parliament; Poongothai Aladi Aruna, Information Technology Minister; P.W. C. Davidar, IT Secretary; and Anto Peter of the Tamil Computing Sangam were among those who attended the meeting.
State government could not take any unilateral decision on the plea by Nalini
Posted by ganesh in Chennai, Communication, Court, Departments, Other, government on February 3rd, 2010
Tamilnadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi today said the State government could not take any unilateral decision on the plea by Nalini, a life convict in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, for her premature release.
Speaking to reporters here, he said, ‘This is a major issue that has to be discussed at the national level. Therefore, we cannot unilaterally take a decision on it.’ He said the State government had appointed an advisory board to consider her plea and its report ‘is on its way.’
The Board was formed after a direction from the Madras High Court on 24 September, 2008, while partly allowing a petition by Nalini to consider her request.
Besides Nalini, imprisoned for the last 19 years, the Board has heard the pleas of two other convicts in the case, Jayakumar and Robert Payas, seeking their premature release.
Nalini moved the Madras High Court last week, seeking permission to argue in person in the appeal filed by Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy against setting up of the board to consider her premature release.
Her request came in a telegram addressed to the Registrar General of the High Court, which has been referred to the Division Bench hearing Swamy’s appeal.
Nalini sent the three-line telegram to the HC registrar, saying, ‘I may be permitted to appear in person for the case.’ The matter was kept before a division bench, comprising Justices Elipe Dharma Rao and N Paul Vasanthakumar, which adjourned the matter to 5 February.
Meanwhile, amid speculation and political uproar, the Prison Advisory Board (PAB), constituted by the State government in response to a plea of premature release made by Nalini, has sent its report to the Tamilnadu government.
This was disclosed by the District Collector C Rajendran, who heads the five-member PAB panel, on Tuesday.
Rajendran said the board, after going through the cases of Nalini and two of her associates, Robert Pyas and Jayakumar, also serving life sentences and eight other persons who had been in jail for over 14 years, had prepared individual reports based on a set of criteria, like their crime and punishment profiles and their conduct in prison.
While the details of the report are not known, the ball is now in the government’s court.
State government enacted a law to bring in a uniform system of school education
Posted by ganesh in Chennai, Communication, Departments, Education, Information, government, programme, student on January 12th, 2010
The State government on Monday enacted a law to bring in a uniform system of school education, amid Opposition demands that the law be enacted only after the “loopholes” are plugged.
School Education Minister Thangam Thennarasu made it clear that the government had framed the Bill keeping in mind the various Supreme Court rulings.
The law was historic since it was for the first time that private schools were being brought under the ambit of penalties if they contravened rules and regulations under the Act.
Pressing his cut motions, former Education Minister C.V.Shanmugham (AIADMK) said that a reading of the Bill indicated that it was drafted in undue haste. It had many provisions that seemed to placate the Matriculation stream schools, he said, adding that as much as 40 per cent of the syllabus favoured students learning in the English medium. He said Section 4 and Section 11 had serious anomalies and these had to be set right before the Bill was passed.
Section 4 says that “all the subjects, other than languages, may be taught in Tamil or English or in any other language as may be decided by a school with the approval of the competent authority.” Mr.Shanmugham said that this meant that the government was not serious about the two language formula; it was providing space for Hindi to be imposed on Tamils. Section 11 details the penalties “if any person wilfully contravenes the provisions of the Act or any rules.”
“He shall be punishable with fine which may extend up to Rs.25,000 and in the case of continuing contravention, with an additional fine which may extend up to Rs.1,000 for every day during which such contravention continues after conviction for the first such contravention.” Mr.Shanmugham criticised the punishment as “too light.”
C.Mahendran (CPI-M) pointed out that though the Muthukumaran Committee Report was tabled in the House, it was never debated. The recommendations of former IAS officer Vijayakumar on the implementation part were neither placed in the House nor were the members aware how many of his recommendations were accepted.
The Bill did not address the whole issue of social justice, its professed aim. There still was no definition for the term “school” – which explained the many make-shift shanties that doubled up as schools. The composition of the Board under the provisions of the Bill also left a lot to be desired.
G.K.Mani (PMK) said the PMK welcomed the concept but wanted the full the implementation of the Committee Report.
Mr.Thennnarsu said that there was no change in the policy laid down by the DMK. He recalled that Chief Minister M.Karunanidhi, on January 1, 1968, had spoken at length about the need for a two-language formula – Tamil and English – and added that this remained the basis of all policies framed by the School Education department.
The criticism that the punishment was too light was baseless since this was the first time that the government had attempted anything of this nature,
Loans taken by the tsunami-affected fishermen owing mechanised boats, would be repaid by it and the banks
The Tamil Nadu Government today announced that the entire principal component of the loans taken by the tsunami-affected fishermen owing mechanised boats, would be repaid by it and the banks would waive the outstanding interest on these loans.
Delivering the customary address to the State Assembly, Governor Surjit Singh Barnala said this would incur an additional expenditure of Rs 80 crore to the State Government.
The Governor said after the DMK regime assumed office, various welfare measures were provided to the tsunami-affected fishermen at a cost of Rs 110 crore and the monthly provision of subsidised diesel had been increased from 1,000 litres to 1,500 litres.
Mr Barnala said the fishermen, who had lost their mechanised boats in tsunami and had taken loans from banks to buy new ones, had represented that they were unable to repay the loans and sought the Government’s assistance in this regard.
Accepting their request, the Government had formulated a scheme in consultation with the banks to remove the debt-burden of the fishermen owning mechanised boats and decided to repay the entire principal of the loans taken by them. ”The banks have agreed to waive the outstanding interest on theseloans,” Mr Barnala added.
Violence should play a pivotal role in resolving issues with a positive approach.
Posted by ganesh in Chennai, Communication, Court, Culture, Other, Public, competition on January 4th, 2010
Protection Officers nominated by the state government under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act for conducting enquiries into cases of violence should play a pivotal role in resolving issues with a positive approach.
Most Indian women, despite preferring complaints, are not inclined to break their marital bondage. Protection Officers should exercise their responsibility carefully and arrange for additional sittings between affected persons and their spouses, observed Hemant Laxman Gokhale, Chief Justice of the Madras High Court.
Inaugurating the day-long workshop on the Protection of Women under Domestic Violence Act 2005 organised jointly by the Tamil Nadu Social Welfare Board and the Women’s Integrated National Development Trust here on Sunday, Justice Gokhale said that Protection Officers should ascertain the gravity of the problem and take efforts to extend maximum assistance to the woman.
He said that violence incidents warranted case-specific orders such as grant of immediate maintenance, ‘residence order’ directing the in-laws or spouse to allot a separate room for a woman vacating house under duress. He also suggested that the orders for sanctioning subsistence allowance, normally sanctioned for industrial workers placed under suspension, could also be considered.
Justice Gokhale said that many families may not prefer to enter the portals of a court and the ambience of a court may not be conducive for the family members, especially those with children.
He hoped that the workshop, the second of its kind in the state, would address the issues in resolving the domestic violence-related cases to a great extent.
Justice G.M. Akbar Ali, Judge of the Madras High Court, said that the workshop with joint participation by all the stakeholders – the police, advocates, judicial officers and counsellors would go a long way in arriving at some clarification on procedures thereby ensuring an expeditious solution to domestic violence cases. Separate trainings organised for stakeholder did not yield the desired results due to various interpretation of the provisions of the Act. Early settlement of cases would keep the families in tact.
Justice B. Rajendran, Judge, Madras High Court, underlined the need for a co-ordinated effort by the stakeholders. Rokkiah Malik, Chairperson, State Social Welfare Board, said the Act had extended protection to women against domestic violence.
M.P. Nirmala Rani, Commissioner for Social Welfare, said that the state government has planned to nominate one Protection Officer for every court jurisdiction. She sought guidelines for appointment of Assistant Public Prosecutors for handling cases under these civil disputes which simultaneously involved criminal proceedings.
‘No chance of bifurcating of TN’
Posted by ganesh in Chennai, Departments, Other, government, programme on December 14th, 2009
Tamilnadu Chief Minister and DMK chief M Karunanidhi today ruled out bifurcation of the State, an oblique reference to PMK supremo Dr Ramadoss for making such a demand. ‘Neither the State government nor the DMK will support such demands’, he said.
Speaking after inspecting the construction work for a library being built to commemorate the centenary year of former Chief Minister C N Annadurai at Kotturpuram in Chennai, Karunanidhi said, ‘A series of violent attacks and protests in the neighbouring Andhra Pradesh goes on to prove that one must not take decision at their leisure and follow it up with actions in haste’.
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He evaded a direct reply to a query whether he was dissatisfied at the way the whole Telengana issue was handled by the Union government.
It may be noted that Ramadoss had favoured the creation of smaller States for faster development. ‘Small is beautiful,’ he said, reiterating his decade-old demand for the bifurcation of Tamilnadu.
‘It will be better to bifurcate the State,’ he had told reporters here, affirming that his party was for splitting Tamilnadu. He had suggested the creation of a ‘South TN’, with Madurai as its capital, a decade ago. ‘When I floated the idea then, it was vehemently opposed. Now there will not be any opposition,’ he had said.
Karunanidhi’s reply that there is no room for bifurcation of Tamilnadu has set the ball rolling the State. Meanwhile, the political crisis in Andhra Pradesh over the Telangana issue intensified with the number of MLAs resigning rising day after day.
To a question on AIADMK supremo J Jayalalithaa’s allegation that Karunanidhi had handled the vexatious Mullai Periyar and Cauvery water dispute in an effective manner, he said the people know the fact and are well-informed.
He said the library named after Annadurai would be completed and inaugurated in May 2010.
The State government. Sanctioning Rs. 17.15 crore for 17 developmental works in Kancheepuram
Posted by ganesh in Departments, Kancheepuram, Others, Transport, government on December 8th, 2009
The State government has issued an order, sanctioning Rs. 17.15 crore for 17 developmental works to be taken up in Kancheepuram town, the native place of former Chief Minister C.N. Annadurai.
This follows the announcement of Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi at the valedictory of the centenary celebration of the former Chief Minister in September.
Improvements to a stretch of the Singaperumalkoil-Arakkonam-Tiruvallur road for Rs. 3.7 crore; provision of a new park in Katchabeeswarar Nagar (Rs. 2.5 crore); construction of storm water drains and widening of the railway road (Rs. 4.2 crore); a flood protection wall in Manjalneer Channel at Okkapiranthan Kulam (Rs. 1.93 crore) and building a swimming pool and providing improvements to district sports stadium in Kancheepuram (Rs. 1.3 crore) are among the works approved by the government.
The order, issued by the Municipal Administration and Water Supply department on Saturday, assigned different works to different departments and local bodies. For instance, the Highways department is to carry out the improvement works to the Singaperumalkoil-Arakkonam-Tiruvallur road while it is the responsibility of the MAWS department to form a park at Katchabeeswarar Nagar in the temple town. The order stated that all the works should be taken up immediately and completed by April.
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