Posts Tagged Tamil Nadu
Heavy rain affects normal life badly hit in coastal areas in TN, Pondy
Posted by ganesh in Health, Information, Public, Puducherry, Rain, illegal, tamilnadu, weather on August 26th, 2010
Normal life was badly hit in coastal areas of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry following heavy rains as Met officials predict more downpour in the next 24 hours in the region.
“A low pressure area still persists over west central and adjoining South West bay off south Andhra Pradesh and North Tamil Nadu coast. Under its influence, heavy rain is expected over coastal Tamil Nadu and Puducherry in the next 24 hours, starting 8.30 AM today,” a Met official said.
Fishermen have been warned not to venture out to sea as strong northwesterly winds, with speed between 45-55 kmph are likely to blow along off north Tamil Nadu and Puducherry coasts.
South Tamil Nadu coast was also likely to experience strong winds from westerly direction with speed occasionally touching 45-55 kmph, the officials said.
Meanwhile, normal life was hit in Chennai and its suburbs following incessant rains and strong winds since yesterday.
Several areas were under knee-deep water while low-lying areas in north Chennai were inundated as the city recorded 200 mm of rain in last 24 hours ending eight am today.
Kanchipuram and Niligiris districts registered the maximum amount of rainfall at 500 mm.
Karnataka pledges to release more Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu
Posted by ganesh in Agriculture, Departments, Health, Information, Rain, Water, meeting, tamilnadu on August 25th, 2010
Buoyed by the promise of better rainfall in the coming days, Karnataka on Tuesday assured the Centre that it would release more water from the Cauvery River to Tamil Nadu to make up for the lowering water table.
The decision was taken at a meeting held by water resources secretary U N Punjiar on Tuesday with senior officials from Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.
“Karnataka has assured us that they will release as much water as they can,” Punjiar said.
However, Karnataka has not disclosed about the volume of water it will release and the timeframe for it.
Official sources said that with better rains in the offing, Karnataka said it would be in a position to release more water. Karnataka has already released 29 TMC while the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal had awarded 90 TMC to neighbouring Tamil Nadu.
Sources said even last year while Karnataka released less water initially, by the end of the year, it had released more than the share expected from it.
Over the years, the sharing of the Cauvery waters has led to a serious conflict between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.
Karnataka feels that it has not got its due share of water utilisation vis-a- vis Tamil Nadu while the latter pleads that it has already developed almost 3,000,000 acres of land, and as a result has come to depend very heavily on the existing pattern of usage. Any change in this pattern, it claims, will adversely affect the livelihood of millions of farmers in the state.
Meanwhile, AIADMK leader Jayalalitha last week stepped up the heat on the ruling DMK, terming it as “anti-farmer” and blaming for a reduction in agricultural production in Tamil Nadu.
Read more: Karnataka pledges to release more Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu – India – The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Karnataka-pledges-to-release-more-Cauvery-water-to-Tamil-Nadu-/articleshow/6428569.cms#ixzz0xeLLJKlY
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.
Tamil new year day fetched a staggering Rs 8,100 at an auction of the offerings
Posted by ganesh in Chennai, Communication, Departments, Health, Information, Other, Public, Temples, businesses, government, tamilnadu on April 16th, 2010
A lemon offered to the God of a village temple in Tamil Nadu on Tamil new year day fetched a staggering Rs 8,100 at an auction of the offerings, acquiring of which is believed to bring in prosperity throughout the year.
A total of 16 lemons, 20 pockets of salt and ten pockets of turmeric powder were offered by devotees to the presiding deity of the Satayappa Swami (Lord Shiva) temple at Kandasamypalayam in Erode District as part of Tamil new year day offerings on Wednesday.
When the offerings were auctioned as per traditional practice on the Tamil new year day, a devotee took the lemon for Rs.8,100, the temple authorities said.
Popular belief in the area was that if the devotees took the offerings on auction on the new year day, their life in the entire year would prosper, they said.
The temple realised Rs.19,400 by auctioning the lemons while salt fetched Rs.2,790 and turmeric powder Rs.5,000,
Motor strike from April 5 has been Called Off by Lorry Owners
Posted by ganesh in Chennai, Information, Transport, competition, modification, strike, tamilnadu, vehicles on April 2nd, 2010
Tamil Nadu Transport Minister K N Nehru today said the proposed motor strike from April 5 has been called off by lorry owners after the government held talks with them.
Speaking to reporters in Chennai after holding talks with office bearers from the All India Motor Transport Congress and Tamil Nadu Lorry Owners Association, he said the government came forward to accept most of the demands put forth by lorry owners.
The meeting was attended by All India Motor Transport Congress chief G R Shanmugappa, Home Secretary Malathi, Transport Secretary, Transport Commissioner besides office bearers from Tamil Nadu Lorry Owners Association.
Tamil Nadu remote villages will soon be operated in 3700 more mini buses
Posted by ganesh in Communication, Departments, Health, Information, Public, Salem, Transport, businesses, government, modification, release, vehicles on April 2nd, 2010
A total of 3700 more mini buses will soon be operated in the remote villages of Tamil Nadu, State Transport Minister K.N Nehru said.
He was speaking after inaugurating ten new buses in seven routes here yesterday. He handed over appointment orders to 822 daily wages workers of Salem Transport corporation on the occasion.
“The government has sanctioned Rs 250 crores to buy new buses”, he said.
The minister said Tamil Nadu stood first in India for offering the lowest bus fare and due to this, the corporation had incurred loss.
Agriculture Minister Veerapandi S Arumugam was among those present.
MK Alagiri saying that he was in the race to become the next president of DMK
Posted by ganesh in Chennai, Communication, Home, Information, Other, Political, competition, illegal, tamilnadu on April 1st, 2010
The succession battle has escalated in Tamil Nadu’s most powerful political family with Union Chemicals Minister MK Alagiri saying that he was in the race to become the next president of Dravida Munnettra Kazhagam (DMK).
Alagiri, who is the elder son of DMK President and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi, said that he would be contesting for the post of DMK president and added that he agreed with his father that the next chief of the party should be elected democratically.
“If there are elections in the party for the post of president I will contest them. I agree with Karunanidhi’s view that leader should be elected democratically. I will only accept democratically elected leader. I spoke according to my conscious,” he said
When asked about his younger brother MK Stalin, Alagiri replied, “Why should we talk about anyone right now when Karunanidhi is alive?”
Alagiri, who is in a battle for succession with Stalin, had earlier said he would not accept anyone else as the leader of the party other than his father.
Stalin is presently the Deputy Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu.
Karunanidhi has already said that only the party had the authority to decide who its next leader would be and no individual had such powers.
He also rubbished rumours that his two sons, Alagiri and Stalin, were involved in a bitter fight to become the next DMK president.
The World Bank approved a loan of the road network in Tamil Nadu
Posted by ganesh in Communication, Departments, Information, Other, PWD, Transport, businesses, government, tamilnadu on March 31st, 2010
The World Bank today approved a USD 50.7 million loan to improve quality and sustainability of the road network in Tamil Nadu, said reports.
Quoting a media release, a report said: “This is additional financing to the Tamilnadu Road Sector Project, which became effective on October 31, 2003, with a loan amount of USD 348 million.”
“Thus far, the project has improved around 850 km of roads and upgraded 570 km of existing state highways to two lane roads”, Pratap Tvgssshrk, World Bank transport specialist and project team leader reportedly said.
“Project performance indicators pertaining to reduction in road accident fatalities, reduction of travel time, and adequate allocation of resources for maintenance have met end-of-project targets,”
53 new FM stations will be set up in Tamil Nadu: S Jegathrakshakan
Posted by ganesh in Award, Communication, Departments, Information, Public, function, modification, programme, tamilnadu on March 27th, 2010
The Akashvani Annual Awards for 2008 were presented by Union Minister of State for Information S Jegathrakshakan here today.
The Minister gave away the awards to All-India Radio (AIR) employees and teams under different sections, including News Service.
In his address, he lauded the services of the country’s national broadcaster and said AIR had a reach of 99 per cent in the state, both in terms of geography and population.
He said the emphasis was on technical upgradation of AIR network during the 11th Five Year Plan and as part of this, existing transmitters in Chennai, Tiruchirappalli, Tirunelveli and Tuticorin radio stations will be replaced with upgraded transmitters.
‘During this period, new captive earth stations will be set up in Madurai and Tiruchirappally,’ he added.
He also said 53 new FM stations will be set up in Tamil Nadu in the next phase.
Urge the Union Government to expeditiously complete the Sethusamudhram Project
Posted by ganesh in Assembly, Communication, Information, budget, tamilnadu on March 19th, 2010
The Tamil Nadu Government on Friday urged the Centre to expeditiously execute the Sethusamudram project by removing “hurdles” that have come in the way of its execution.
“We urge the Union Government to expeditiously complete the Sethusamudhram Project, which will provide an impetus to the economy of Tamil Nadu and has enormous potential to add to the prosperity of the state, by removing hurdles that have come in the way it its execution”, Finance minister K Anbazhagan said in his budget speech.
On the Mullaperiyar issue, he said the state government was of the view that the Supreme Court order, constituting the empowered committee, required to be recalled.
“Hence, an interlocutory petition was been filed in Supreme Court on March 8 praying for recall of its order dated February 18 and that the court may pass appropriate orders to continue its hearing in this case”, it said.
The Supreme Court in its judgement on February 27, 2006, had held that the Mullaiperiyar Dam is safe to raise the water level from 136 feet to 142 feet.
With a view to prevent implementation of this judgement, the Kerala Government resorted to a legislative amendment.
After hearing a petition filed by the Tamil Nadu government to declare this legislative amendment unconstitutional, the Constitutional Bench of Supreme Court on March 18 ordered constitution of an Empowered Committee under the Chairmanship of A.S. Anand, former Chief Justice of India.
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