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M K Stalin would leave for New Delhi later to attend a meeting of Manmohan Singh
Posted by ganesh in Communication, Culture, Departments, Other, Politics, government, meeting, programme, tamilnadu on February 5th, 2010
Tamilnadu Deputy Chief Minister M K Stalin would leave for New Delhi later today to attend a meeting of Chief Ministers on price rise. The meeting is to chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh starting Saturday.
The Deputy Chief Minister would represent Tamilnadu on behalf of Chief Minister M Karunanidhi.
Stalin, who is on a two-day visit to the capital, is expected to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chairperson Sonia Gandhi, Union Ministers Pranab Mukherjee, Mamta Baneerjee and Kamal Nath.
Apart from price rise, a range of issues including internal security and law and order problem would be discussed in this two-day meet.
Stalin would discuss in detail the steps taken by Tamilnadu government to control price rise and State government freebies such as one kilo rice for one rupee, essential commodities at low price and the steps taken by the government to control the prices of cereals and pulses.
Stalin would elaborate on various issues including law and order situation in the State and the government schemes.
He would discuss about lack of funds for railway schemes in Tamilnadu with Minister for Railways Mamta Baneerjee and urge her to allocate more funds for the State in the Railway Budget.
He would meet Minister for Finance Pranab Mukherjee and discuss about the Tirupur dyeing units issue. He would meet a host of Central Ministers and discuss about allocation of funds.
Supreme Court’s direction and guidelines during the “Jallikattu” sports
The district administration today said that it would strictly implement the Supreme Court’s direction and guidelines during the “Jallikattu” (taming the bull) sport, to be organised at Alanganallur in connection with Pongal festival here.
District Collector N Mathivanan told a meeting of the organisers of the sport that the bulls participating in the sport should be registered in advance, certified for their physical fitness by veterinary doctors and the animal’s horns should not be sharp.
“Using of drugs or steroitds will not be allowed. The field should be broad enough to allow four players to tame a bull. Only four players could participate at one point of time against one bull”, he told them.
The bulls should be released one by one with proper interval. Double barricades would be installed to protect spectators. A medical team should be kept ready to provide treatment in case of any one getting gored and ambulances also should be kept ready.
He asked the organisers to get PWD approval for the spectators platform and asked them to deposit not less than Rs two lakh. The animal welfare board staff should be accomodated at vantage positions to observe the sport and ensure that bulls were not ill treated.
District Superintendent of Police Manoharan, DRO Dinesh Oliver Ponraj also attended the meeting.
President invited to World Tamil conference
Posted by ganesh in Coimbatore, Communication, Departments, Tamil Conference, anniversary, function, meeting, programme, tamilnadu on January 2nd, 2010
Chief Minister M Karunanidhi chairing a meeting with the chairpersons and members of various committees formed in connection with the World Tamil Conference in Chennai
Chief Minister M Karunanidhi has said that steps would be taken to make Tamil as an official language of the Union Government.
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Addressing presspersons after a meeting with chairpersons and members of various committees formed in connection with the World Classical Tamil Conference here yesterday, he said ‘efforts for the benefit of Tamil language would not just stop with the classical Tamil conference in Coimbatore. The State government would follow-up, he added.
The State government has invited President Pratibha Patil, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi for the conference to be held in June, the Chief Minister said.
To a query whether statues of Tamil scholars would be installed as was done in the case of the Second World Tamil Conference in Chennai in 1968, the Chief Minister said this was raised in the discussion on Thursday. A decision would be taken.
Asked about the participation of the Opposition parties in the conference, he said the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, the Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and the Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam had conveyed in writing that they would not take part.
How would the Coimbatore conference be different from the earlier World Tamil Conferences? He replied that the Coimbatore meet would be as special as the Chennai meet that was held under C N Annadurai’s leadership.
The Chief Minister added that infrastructure improvement schemes would be taken up in Coimbatore district.
The Chief Minister said the Conference should be used to foster unity among Tamils.
He was keen that political parties should transcend their differences on occasions that would reflect Tamil sentiments and promote the language. A total of 1,244 delegates from different countries had confirmed participation, Karunanidhi added.
State Finance Minister K Anbazhagan, Deputy Chief Minister M K Stalin, TNCC president K V Thangkabalu, Director General of Police K P Jain, Special Officer for the Conference K Allaudin were among those participated.
SHG members during the interaction meeting organised the platinum jubilee year celebrations
K.R. Anandha, Regional Director, Reserve Bank of India, in Madurai district to take part in a sensitisation programme for SHGs.
Meetings organised by banks usually tend to be placid affairs with speakers resorting to an array of financial and technical terminology that are beyond the comprehension of the laymen. However, the meeting organised at Chekkanoorani in Madurai district on Monday took most of the 300-odd self-help group members in the audience by surprise.
K.R. Anandha, Regional Director, Reserve Bank of India (RBI), along with a host of top RBI officers and officials from different banks gave centre stage to SHG members during the interaction meeting organised as part of the platinum jubilee year celebrations. After an inaugural function, they took questions from the members and answered all of them patiently.
A trickle at first, the questions flow soon turned into a torrent. One SHG member wanted to know why all banks did not have the same interest rates. Mr. Anandha told the lady that different banks had different systems of assets and liabilities and that RBI no longer micro-managed interest rates.
“We are more concerned about ensuring the timely flow of credit to consumer and hence the banks have a free hand in determining interest rates. Only with regard to agriculture loans at public sector banks, a rate of 7 per cent has been fixed,” he informed her.
When a SHG member queried why the groups of ‘Mahalir Thittam’ (Tamil Nadu Corporation for Development of Women) were given preference while giving economic assistance, bank officials said that it was a policy decision of the State Government over which they had no say and were duty bound to follow. However, RBI officials assured the lady that this question had cropped up in many places and it would be brought to the notice of the Government.
Many SHG members thanked the Canara Bank for having established a separate branch for micro finance as it had resulted in their loan applications getting expedited. Also, sanctions to 418 loans to the tune of Rs. 5.22 crore were given on this occasion with the RBI Regional Director giving away the letters.
S. Selvaraj and N. Ramasubramanian, Assistant General Managers, RBI, Chandini Mool Chandani, Deputy General Manager, RBI, K.P. Pai, Assistant General Manager, Canara Bank and KN. Subramanian, Lead District Manager, were present.
TN CM returns from Bangalore
Posted by ganesh in Chennai, Communication, Departments, Other, illegal, meeting, programme on December 28th, 2009
Tamilnadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi, who had left for Bangalore early this week, returned today.
Karunanidhi, who went on a private visit, arrived here by a private airliner, official sources said.
Meanwhile, the Election Commission has convened a meeting of various political parties here today to take opinions on demand for postponement of the January 20 by-poll to Pennagaram Assembly constituency, following demand from parties including, AIADMK and PMK among others, in view of ‘Pongal’ festival in mid January.
Audacious-09’, the country’s first open award centre anniversary celebrations
Susan Walker, Regional Director-Asia Pacific, Duke of Edinburgh’s Award International Association, addressing a meeting at Madurai Kamaraj University
‘Audacious-09’, the country’s first open award centre anniversary celebrations, was held at the Madurai Kamaraj University here on Wednesday.
Senior representatives of The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award International Association and varsity officials participated in the event where students and heads of various schools were explained the importance of overall development of students, both in schools and colleges.
The Department of Management Studies, Madurai Kamaraj University, was chosen to conduct the event which was christened ‘The International Award for Young People – The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award’ in which students were felicitated.
It was organised in collaboration with Mahatma Group of Schools, Aurobindo Mira Group of educational institutions and the Rotary Club of Madurai North West.
Susan Walker, Regional Director (Asia Pacific), The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award International Association, along Delia Holahan, Executive Assistant of the association, addressed the students.
C. Chandran, general secretary, Madurai Open Award Centre and Professor, Department of Management Studies, Madurai Kamaraj University, S. Premalatha, Secretary and Correspondent, Mahatma Group of Schools and G. Dinesh of the university’s Department of Management Studies, were among those who spoke.
The Coimbatore Corporation Council resolved to explore the possibility of improving arterial roads
Posted by ganesh in Coimbatore, Public, businesses, function, meeting, programme on December 2nd, 2009
Traffic on Avanashi Road flyover. The corporation plans to improve the condition of these roads for the upcoming Tamil literary conference
The Coimbatore Corporation Council on Monday resolved to explore the possibility of improving arterial roads such as Avanashi Road, Tiruchi Road, Mettupalayam Road and Sathyamangalam Road to mark the World Classical Tamil Conference in June 2010.
A resolution to this effect was discussed at the meeting presided by Mayor R. Venkatachalam along with Deputy Mayor N. Karthik and Corporation Commissioner Anshul Mishra.
It was decided to seek the expression of interest from private players under the Public-Private Partnership basis to avoid financial burden on the civic body.
Water supply
The Council decided to request the State Government to give Rs. 7 crore to replace the existing 6.90-km length of Pilloor water supply mainline that supplies water to the North and East Zones of the Corporation. Frequent leaks in the line caused by pressure had resulted in erratic supply to the residents in these two zones. Hence, it was decided to replace the main pipeline from Sathyamangalam Road via Thaneer pandal road and Avanashi Road with ductile iron pipes.
The Council also approved a resolution for taking up additional works such as roofing, new place for cutting and cleaning the fish, parking places, flooring, electrical works, drinking water facilities and stair case construction at the modern fish market at Ukkadam at a cost of Rs. 75 lakh.
The Corporation passed four resolutions for procurement of baskets for degradable and bio-non degradable wastes for segregation at source for four zones as part of the Solid Waste Management programme at Rs. 1.49 crore. It also resolved to take up renovation works of the flower market at Rs. 98.43 lakh.
The Council resolved to take up the works of removing the 151 street light posts that were 10 years old and replace them with new ones with 250 watts sodium vapour lamps.
The Council also noted that works were being taken up as part of the ongoing works by the National Highways for widening Tiruchi Road into four lane from bypass road to Stock Exchange. The work involved realignment of the centre median.
The Council took up a resolution for renovating the drainage and replace the broken concrete slabs to make pavement available for pedestrians on Oppanakkara Street at Rs. 75 lakh.
It also discussed a resolution for fixing an acceptable nominal rent and to lease the proposed world class swimming pool to be constructed at Rs. 175 lakh on Dr.Nanjappa Road by the Sports Development Authority of Tamil Nadu.
It was decided to fix a reasonable rent and to lease the space in VOC Park to the Tamil Nadu Fisheries Development Corporation for 20 years to run an aquarium.
Farmers demonstrating at the collectorate after a walkout from the monthly grievances day meeting
Farmers of Thanjavur district staged a walkout from the monthly agriculture grievances day meeting held at the Collectorate here on Friday urging the State Government to get the 50 per cent share of crop insurance from Central Government and pay the compensation for farmers whose crops were damaged in the Nisha cyclone last year.
They said that the State Government’s share of 50 per cent alone is now given to farmers. Centre’s share is pending.
They also demanded payment of Rs. 2,500 per tonne for sugarcane.
Presiding over the meeting, Collector M. S. Shanmugham said that samba transplantation had been completed on 1.08 lakh hectares in the district so far and Thaladi transplantation on 18,000 hectares. Thaladi transplantation may be completed before December 15.
The last date for payment of premium for enrolling farmers in crop insurance for the current samba and thaladi season is December 15. Loanee farmers can pay premium up to December 31.
There is a stock of 5,949 tonnes of Urea, 4,697 tonnes of Di Ammonium Phosphate, 3,582 tonnes of Potash and 1944 tonnes of complex fertilisers in the Primary Agriculture Co-operative Credit Societies in the district and with private companies, the Collector said.
Under National Horticulture Mission, it has been planned to raise cocoa crop on 1000 hectares, mango on 50 hectares, banana on 400 hectares and chillies on 100 hectares this year.
Under National Bamboo Mission, it has been planned to raise bamboo on 75 hectares this year.
The plan is to raise medicinal herbs on 75 hectares this year under National Medicinal Herbs Mission.
Thanjavur and Kumbakonam Central Co-operative Banks have so far disbursed Rs 70 crore as crop loan this year to 24,579 farmers.
Opposition stages walk-out at discussing a point during the panchayat meeting
Posted by ganesh in Politics, Trichy, competition, meeting on November 28th, 2009
Members of the District Panchayat and its president Sangeetha Vasanthakumar, discussing a point during the panchayat meeting in Tiruchi
District Panchayat council ward members, owing allegiance to the Desiya Murpokku Dravidar Kazhagam (DMDK), Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI-M), Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (MDMK) and All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) staged a walk-out in protest against what they called ‘failure of the District Panchayat’ in fulfilling the needs of the people.
Transparency
They raised slogans demanding transparency in the administration and the allocation of funds to the District Panchayat wards.
The trouble started when a group of members – R. Raja (CPI-M), A. Kangaraj (DMDK) and Cheran (MDMK) submitted a petition to the District Panchayat president Sankeetha Vasanthakumar, demanding, among other things, release of a ‘white paper’ on the ward-wise selection of works and respective allocation of funds.
They insisted on adopting a resolution in support of their demands.
The president, in her reply, politely denied that none of the demands could be adopted as resolution as the petition was not submitted in advance.
Development of GH
Expressing concern over laying of road at Punganur tank, another member, Nedumaran (AIADMK) wanted a resolution to be adopted for the development of the Annal Gandhi Memorial Government Hospital in the city. Members of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) objected to a few remarks by the opposition, triggering heated exchanges for quite some time.
Meanwhile, the opposition members, including four women, staged a walk-out protesting against the ‘negligence’ of petitions on people’s grievances being submitted by them to the District Panchayat.
Later, Ms. Sankeetha Vasanthakumar clarified that the State government’s guidelines on conducting the proceedings were being adhered to.
Due priority was attached to members’ grievances and also for its early redress,
All buses told to cover newly opened additional bus stand in Kovilpatti
Posted by ganesh in Transport, government, meeting on November 27th, 2009
A public hearing over operation of bus services between Anna bus stand and the newly opened additional bus stand in Kovilpatti was conducted at the collectorate here on Tuesday.
Presiding over the meeting, Collector G. Prakash gave certain instructions regarding the routes of buses plying through the bus stations in Kovilpatti from various cities.
He said buses plying from Kovilpatti through Vilathikulam Tuticorin, Tiruchendur and Pasuvanthanai should start from the Anna bus stand. Buses bound for the aforementioned places from other cities en route Kovilpatti should go via the additional bus stand and the Anna bus stand. Buses bound for Madurai and Tirunelveli from Kovilpatti, should start from the additional bus stand and go through the Anna bus stand.
Buses plying to Madurai from Kovilpatti will go through Lakshmi Mill Bridge via Anna bus stand and Railway Bridge. Similarly buses plying from Kovilpatti to Tirunelveli will go through the railway bridge via Anna bus stand and Lakshmi Mill.
Buses bound for Srivilliputtur, Rajapalayam, Thiruvengadam, Kalugumalai, Sankarankoil and Sivakasi from Kovilpatti will start from the additional bus stand.
Keeping in mind the convenience of passengers, the drivers, who travel from 8 p.m. to 5.30 a.m. through Kovilpatti, have been instructed to alight and take passengers at the Anna bus stand.
Long distance buses from other cities going through Kovilpatti need not enter in to Anna bus stand and they must only go through the additional bus stand. During the meeting it was decided to increase the services between the two bus stations to facilitate their needs.
The General Manager of TNSTC should work out strategies for improving the services. It was advised that the police personnel in the nearby stations should maintain vigil and ensure safety of passengers during night.
The new regulations would come into effect from November 27.
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