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Thursday, April 2, 2020

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ஊரடங்கு பிசுபிசுப்பால் சுகாதார துறை கலக்கம்

Updated : ஏப் 02, 2020 00:34 | Added : ஏப் 01, 2020 22:54




சென்னை : ஊரடங்கு அமலாகி, ஒரு வாரம் மட்டுமே கடந்த நிலையில், பிசுபிசுக்கும் நிலைக்கு வந்துள்ளது. சாலைகளில் மக்கள் நடமாட்டம், வாகன எண்ணிக்கை அதிகரித்துள்ளதால், சுகாதார துறையினர் கவலை அடைந்து உள்ளனர்.

கொரோனா வைரஸ் பரவலை தடுக்கும் வகையில், நாடு முழுவதும், 21 நாட்கள் ஊரடங்கு அமலில் உள்ளது. ஊரடங்கு அறிவித்த, மார்ச், 24 முதல், அனைத்து மாநிலங்களிலும், அத்தியாவசிய பணிகள் தவிர, மற்ற பணிகளுக்கு தடை விதிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது. அனைவரும் வெளியே வராமல், வீட்டில் இருக்க அறிவுறுத்தப்பட்டு உள்ளனர்.

முதல் நாளில், பெரும்பாலானவர்கள் வீட்டில் இருக்காமல், வெளியே சுற்றினர். போலீசாரின் கெடுபிடி அதிகரித்ததும், வீட்டில் முடங்கினர். இந்நிலையில், அவசர தேவைகளுக்கு வெளியூர் செல்வோர், அத்தியாவசிய பணிகளுக்கு செல்வோர் மட்டும், அனுமதி சீட்டு பெறலாம் என, அரசு அறிவித்தது.

இதை தொடர்ந்து, சாலைகளில் வாகன போக்குவரத்து அதிகரித்துள்ளது. கடை வீதிகளில், மக்கள் நடமாட்டம் நாளுக்கு நாள் அதிகரித்து வருகிறது. இது தவிர, அரசின் நிவாரண உதவி பெறுவதற்கு, 'டோக்கன்' வழங்கப்படும் என, அரசு அறிவித்தது. இந்த டோக்கனை பெறவும், கூட்டம் கூடத் துவங்கியது.

சமூக இடைவெளி இல்லாமல், பொது மக்கள் நெரிசலில் நிற்கும் நிலை உள்ளது. இதன் காரணமாக, ஊரடங்கு பிசுபிசுத்து விடும் நிலை ஏற்பட்டு உள்ளது. மேலும், மக்கள் நடமாட்டம் அதிகரித்தால், கொரோனா தொற்று அதிகரிக்கும் அபாயம் உள்ளதாக, சுகாதாரத் துறையினர் அச்சம் அடைந்துஉள்ளனர்.

இதே நிலை நீடித்தால், உணவகங்கள் மற்றும் மருந்தகங்கள் தவிர, மற்ற அனைத்து கடைகளையும் அடைத்து, ஊரடங்கை முழுமையாக அமல்படுத்துவதற்கான நடவடிக்கை மேற்கொள்ள, பேரிடர் மேலாண்மைத் துறை ஆலோசித்து வருவதாக தெரிகிறது.










Wednesday, April 1, 2020

சுற்றித் திரியும், 'காளை'கள்; 'நெம்பி' எடுக்கும் போலீஸ்!

Added : ஏப் 01, 2020 01:12

புழல் : ஊரடங்கு உத்தரவை மீறி ஊரை சுற்றுவோரை, லத்தியால் அடித்தால் பிரச்னையாகி விடுகிறது என்பதால், அவர்களை கட்டுப்படுத்த, போலீசார் புதுப்புது வகையாக நுாதன தண்டனைகளை எப்படி வழங்கலாம் என, தங்களது பள்ளி பருவ அனுபவங்களை செயல்படுத்துகின்றனர்.

'கொரோனா' வைரஸ் பரவலை தடுக்கும் நடவடிக்கையாக, நாடெங்கும், 24ம் தேதி நள்ளிரவு முதல் ஊரடங்கு உத்தரவு அமல்படுத்தப்பட்டது. உணவு, மருத்துவம் உள்ளிட்ட அத்தியாவசிய தேவைகளுக்கு விலக்கு அளிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது.மளிகை, காய்கறி, இறைச்சி கடைகளில், சமூக இடைவெளியை கடைபிடிக்க வலியுறுத்தப்படுகிறது. ஆனால், பலர் சமூக இடைவெளி மற்றும் ஊரடங்கு உத்தரவை மீறி, அலட்சியமாக ஊரை சுற்றி, பொதுமக்களின் பாதுகாப்பை கேள்விக்குறியாக்கி வருகின்றனர்.

இந்நிலையில், அவர்களை மடக்கி பிடிக்கும் போலீசார், பல்வேறு நுாதன தண்டனைகளை வழங்கி, அறிவுரை கூறுகின்றனர். ஆனாலும், அவர்கள் அடங்குவதாக இல்லை. இதனால், விதிமீறுவோரை கட்டுப்படுத்த, போலீசார் தங்களின் பள்ளிப்பருவத்தில் அனுபவித்த தண்டனைகளை நினைவு கூர்ந்து, அதை அடங்காதவர்களுக்கு அளித்து வருகின்றனர்.

தோப்புக்கரணம், தவளை ஜம்பிங், அங்கப் பிரதட்சணம், நாற்காலி போல் உட்காருவது, கொரோனா குறித்து கேள்வி பதில் எழுதுவது, நெற்றியில் தலை எழுத்து, சுவாசப்பயிற்சி, இரு கையிலும் புத்தகங்களை சுமந்து தராசு தட்டு போல் வளைந்து நிற்பது என, பல்வேறு நுாதன தண்டனைகளை, இதுவரை பலருக்கும் வழங்கி உள்ளனர்.அதையும் மீறி ஊர் சுற்றுபவர்களை, ஏப்., 14ம் தேதி வரை எப்படி கட்டுப்படுத்துவது என, புதிய நுாதன தண்டனைகளை ஆலோசித்து வருகின்றனர்.

Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Why PM CARES, asks Cong.

Party leaders point to the existing National Relief Fund to deal with pandemic

31/03/2020, SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT,NEW DELHI


Congress leaders on Monday questioned the setting up of the PM CARES Fund to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic by Prime Minister Narendra Modi when the Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund (PMNRF) is already in existence.

Lok Sabha member Shashi Tharoor on Twitter, commenting on another tweet about PM CARES, asked: “Why not simply rename PMNRF as PM-CARES, given the PM’s penchant for catchy acronyms, instead of creating a separate Public Charitable Trust whose rules & expenditure are totally opaque?”

“@PMOIndia you owe the country an explanation for this highly unusual step,” Mr. Tharoor added.

On March 28, the government had set up the Prime Minister’s Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations Fund’ (PM CARES Fund) to deal with the unprecedented situation arising out of the COVID-19 outbreak where citizens can make voluntary contributions.

However, some critics including Congress leaders pointed out that money was lying ‘unspent’ in the PMNRF.

“The PM’s National Relief Fund (PMNRF) has an unspent balance of ₹3,800 crore [as of December 16, 2019]. Why couldn’t #COVID19 donations go to PMNRF? Why was PM CARE created? Why are PM & 3 ministers members of this trust without any opposition or civil society leaders?” asked Congress spokesperson Salman Soz.

Noted historian Ramchandra Guha too targeted the government over PM CARES Fund.

“This is a very important thread. Why a new fund when a Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund already exists? And why the self-aggrandizing name, PM-CARES? Must a colossal national tragedy also be (mis)used to enhance the cult of personality?” he asked.
Centre urged to close illegal meat markets

TNN | Mar 30, 2020, 07.09 PM IST

CHENNAI: Five national animal protection organisations have written a joint letter to Union minister of health & family welfare Dr Harsh Vardhan, urging him to close illegal meat markets as well as unlicensed wildlife and pet markets. They also requested him to regulate the animal production industry.

The letter from People for Animals (PFA), Humane Society International/India (HSI/India), Mercy for Animals India Foundation (MFA), Federation of Indian Animal Protection Organisations (FIAPO) and Ahimsa Trust describes the cramped and unhygienic conditions in which animals are raised or slaughtered and sold for food or as pets.

In the letter, they urged the government to undertake immediate action on the markets as they do not follow food safety guidelines (FSSAI guidelines) to prevent the emergence of novel diseases and spread of the current corona crisis. The outbreak of Covid-19 is said to have emerged from a meat and wildlife market in Wuhan, China, in December 2019.

“Increase in industrial slaughter and factory farming of animals, the unchecked trade in wildlife and crowding of various species of animals in close confinement has been an invitation to deadly epidemics. The connection is unmistakable,” said Gauri Maulekhi, Trustee, PfA. “Let’s learn from our mistakes. We are hopeful that the ministry of health undertakes the suggested measures to rectify this crisis and safeguard this country’s health.”
முதல்வர் நிவாரண நிதிக்கு சாமானியர்களும் உதவி

Added : மார் 30, 2020 21:57

சென்னை: முதல்வர் நிவாரண நிதிக்கு, கூலித் தொழிலாளர்கள் உட்பட, அனைத்து தரப்பினரும், ஆர்வமாக நிதி வழங்கி வருகின்றனர்.கொரோனா நோய் தடுப்பு பணிக்காகவும், ஏழை மக்களுக்கு உதவுவதற்காகவும், முதல்வர் பொது நிவாரண நிதிக்கு, பணம் வழங்கும்படி, பொது மக்களுக்கு, முதல்வர், இ.பி.எஸ்., வேண்டுகோள் விடுத்து உள்ளார்.அதை ஏற்று, ஏராளமானோர் நிதி வழங்கி உள்ளனர். கூலித் தொழிலாளர்கள் முதல், வசதி படைத்தவர்கள் வரை, அனைவரும் தங்களால் முடிந்த நிதியை வழங்கி வருகின்றனர். இவர்கள், 100, 200, 500, 1,000 என, ஒவ்வொருவரும் தங்களால் முடிந்த தொகையை, நிவாரண நிதிக்கு அனுப்பியுள்ளனர்; அதற்கான ரசீதை, முதல்வரின், 'டுவிட்டர்' பக்கத்தில் பதிவிட்டுள்ளனர்.

Monday, March 30, 2020

Life convict’s gesture

30/03/2020,MADURAI

Life convict in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, Ravichandran, currently lodged in Madurai Central Prison, has contributed ₹5,000 from his prison wages to the Chief Minister’s Public Relief Fund, towards providing treatment to patients of COVID-19.

He had earlier contributed a part of his prison wages towards the establishment of Tamil Chair in Harvard University and Cyclone Gaja relief measures.

Saturday, March 28, 2020

அலட்சிய போக்குடன் சுற்றும் மக்கள் தமிழகத்தில் 'கொரோனா' பரவும் அபாயம்

Added : மார் 27, 2020 23:31

சென்னை :மத்திய, மாநில அரசுகள், பலமுறை அறிவுறுத்தியும், பலரும் வீட்டில் இல்லாமல் அலட்சியப் போக்குடன் வெளியில் சுற்றித் திரிகின்றனர். இவர்களால், தமிழகத்தில், 'கொரோனா' வைரஸ், சமூக தொற்றாக பரவும் அபாயம் உருவாகி உள்ளது.கொரோனா பரவாமல் தடுக்க அவசர அவசரமாக இந்தியாவில் ஊரடங்கு உத்தரவு பிறப்பிக்கப் பட்டது. உலகளவில் பிப்., 26ல் 81 ஆயிரத்து, 820 ஆக இருந்த கொரோனா தொற்று, மார்ச் 26ல், 5.34 லட்சமாக அதிகரித்துள்ளது. இந்நோயால் ஏற்பட்ட இறப்பு, இத்தாலியில், 8,000த்தையும், ஸ்பெயினில், 4,000த்தையும் தாண்டிவிட்டது.

பொருளாதாரத்தில், மருத்துவத்தில் முன்னேறிய நாடுகள் கூட, திடீரென அதிகரித்த நோய் தொற்றால் தவிக்கின்றன. இதற்கு முக்கிய காரணம், இந்நோய் குறித்த அலட்சியப் போக்கே. பாதிப்பு அதிகரித்த பின், அவசர அவசரமாக ஊரடங்கு பிறப்பித்து வருகின்றன.அதேபோல், இந்தியா போன்ற மக்கள் தொகை அதிகமுள்ள நாடுகளில் அலட்சியப் போக்கு நீடித்தால், அதன் விளைவுகள், பல மடங்கு அதிகமாக இருக்கும்.இதை உணர்ந்தே, பிரதமர் மோடி, நாடு முழுவதும், 21 நாள் ஊரடங்கு உத்தரவு பிறப்பித்து, கட்டாயமாக பின்பற்றவும் வலியுறுத்தினார்.

தமிழகத்தில் தடையுத்தரவு அமலானாலும், மக்கள் ஒத்துழைப்பு முழுமையாக இல்லை. இந்நோய் தொற்று குறித்த அபாயத்தை உணராமல், போலீசாருக்கு, 'டிமிக்கி' கொடுத்து, ஊர் சுற்றுவதில், சிலர் இன்பம் காண்கின்றனர்.மக்களின் அத்தியாவசியப் பொருட்களுக்கு பற்றாக்குறை வந்துவிடக் கூடாது என்பதற்காகவே, அதன் விற்பனை தடை செய்யப்படவில்லை. ஆனால், இதை சாதகமாக பயன்படுத்தி, சாலையில் சுற்றுபவர்களின் எண்ணிக்கை அதிகமாக உள்ளது.குறிப்பாக, உழவர் சந்தைகளில், காய்கறி வாங்க, போட்டி போட்டு கும்பலாக நிற்கின்றனர். அதிலும் பலர், அன்றைய தேவைக்கு மட்டும் காய்கறி வாங்கிச் செல்கின்றனர். மீண்டும் அடுத்தடுத்த நாட்களில், உழவர் சந்தை உள்ளிட்ட பொது இடங்களில் வலம் வருகின்றனர்.

இப்படி தினமும் ஒரு மணி நேரம் வரை, ஊர் சுற்ற, பொருட்கள் வாங்குவதாக காரணம் சொல்கின்றனர். ஆபத்து காலத்தில், ஒரு வாரத்துக்கு தேவையான காய்கறிகளை வாங்கலாம் என்றோ, அவசியமின்றி வெளியே வரக்கூடாது என்ற எண்ணமோ பலரிடம் இல்லை.தமிழகத்தில் பல்வேறு இடங்களில் போலீசார், பொதுமக்கள் செல்ல முடியாத வகையில் தடுப்புகளை வைத்துள்ளனர். ஆனால், பலரும் மருந்து சீட்டு, மருத்துவமனை கார்டுகளை வைத்து, இருசக்கர வாகனங்கள், கார்களில் தாராளமாக செல்கின்றனர்.போலீசார் தடுத்து நிறுத்தி கேட்டால், மருந்துக் கடை, மருத்துவமனை, வங்கிகள் மற்றும் மளிகை கடைகளுக்கு செல்வதாக பதில் அளிக்கின்றனர். இதனால், தெருவில் உலா வரும் பொதுமக்கள் எண்ணிக்கை அதிகரித்து வருகிறது. அவர்களை கட்டுப்படுத்த முடியாமல், போலீசார் திணறுகின்றனர். இதனால், சமூக தொற்று ஏற்பட்டு பலருக்கு கொரோனா வைரஸ் பரவும் அபாயம் உள்ளது.இத்தாலியில் ஒரே ஒரு பெண் மூலம் 30 சதவீதம் பேர் தொற்றுக்கு ஆளாகினர் என்கிறது புள்ளி விபரம்.
ஒவ்வொருவரின் அலட்சியப் போக்கும், பல நோயாளிகளை, வயதானவர்களை, கர்ப்பிணிகளை, குழந்தைகளை பாதிக்கும் என்பதை உணர்வதில்லை.நாட்டின் பொருளாதாரத்துக்கு பெரும் வீழ்ச்சி ஏற்படும் என்ற நிலையிலும், மத்திய அரசு எடுத்துள்ள ஊரடங்கு உத்தரவு முடிவு, எந்த அளவுக்கு முக்கியமானது என்பது, பலருக்கும் புரியவில்லை. 'எனவே, ஊர் சுற்றுவோரை கடுமையாக தண்டித்து, நிலைமையை கட்டுப்படுத்த வேண்டும்' என, மருத்துவர்கள் வலியுறுத்தி உள்ளனர்.

ஜப்பானை பின்பற்றுவோம்

கொரோனா பரவ தொடங்கிய போது, நோய் தொற்று எண்ணிக்கையில், இரண்டாம் இடத்திலிருந்த ஜப்பான், பின் சுதாரித்து, அரசு எடுத்த நடவடிக்கை, மக்களின் சுய ஒழுக்கம், அங்கு கொரோனா பாதிப்பை கட்டுப்படுத்தியுள்ளது. சில நாட்களாக, அங்கு புது தொற்று வரவில்லை.தற்போது வரை, 1,387 பேர் மட்டும், நோய் தொற்றால் பாதிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளனர். இதேபோன்ற நிலை இந்தியாவில் வரவேண்டும் என்றால், பொதுமக்கள் ஒத்துழைப்பு, சுயக் கட்டுப்பாடு அவசியம்.
வீட்டில் இருந்து வேலை செய்யவது கடினமாக உள்ளதா? இதை கடைபிடியுங்கள்.

Updated : மார் 28, 2020 00:30 | Added : மார் 28, 2020 00:13 |

கொரோனா அச்சம் காரணமாக அனைத்து நிறுவனங்களும் தங்கள் பணியாளர்களுக்கு வீட்டிலிருந்து பணிபுரியுமாறு உத்தரவிட்டுள்ளது.

இந்தியாவில் 21 நாள் மக்கள் சுய ஊரடங்கை கடைப்பிடிக்கவும் உத்தரவிடப்பட்டுள்ளது. இப்படியான சூழ்நிலையில் வீட்டில் இருந்து வேலை செய்யும்போது அலுவலக பணிகளைக் காலம் தாழ்த்தாமல் முடிப்பது முக்கிய கடமையாக உள்ளது.

அலுவலகத்தில் ஒரு சிலருடன் நீங்கள் பழகாதபோது வேலை செய்வது ஒரு சவால் என்று நீங்கள் நினைத்தால், தற்போது நீங்கள் வீட்டிலிருந்து வேலை செய்வது ஒரு உண்மையான சவாலாக இருக்கும். ஏனென்றால், வீட்டில் வேலை செய்வது வசதியாக இருந்தாலும், நாம் உண்மையில் கவனம் செலுத்த முடியாத இடமாக வீடு உள்ளது. சரியாக வேலையில் கவனம் செலுத்த முடியாது. அப்படியே வேலையில் கவனம் செலுத்தினால் வீட்டின் நடவடிக்கைகளை கவனிக்க முடியாது. இது மன அழுத்தத்தை ஏற்படுத்துகிறது.

மன அழுத்தத்தை வெல்வது எப்படி?

நீங்கள் ஒரு கால அட்டவணையை பராமரிக்க வேண்டிய அவசியம் உள்ளது. அப்படி கால அட்டவணையை பராமரிக்காவிட்டால் வீட்டிலிருந்து வேலை செய்வது மிகுதியான குழப்பத்தை ஏற்படுத்துகிறது. நீங்கள் செய்ய வேண்டிய விஷயங்களை பட்டியலிடுங்கள். ஒவ்வொரு பணிக்கும் நேரங்களை ஒதுக்குங்கள், அப்படியாக எந்த ஒரு பணிக்கு அதற்கான நேரத்தை செலவழித்தால் உங்கள் பணியை சுலபமாக முடிக்க உதவுகிறது?

வீட்டிலிருந்து வேலை செய்யும்போது, உங்கள் வீட்டிலுள்ள மற்ற வேலையையும் செய்யும் கடமை உள்ளது. இவ்விரண்டிற்கும் நடுவில் நீங்கள் உங்கள் உணவைத் தவிர்ப்பது சாத்தியமாகக்கூடும். எனவே நீங்கள் சாப்பிடுவதில் கவனம் செலுத்த வேண்டும். மேலும் சரியான நேரத்தை ஒதுக்கிக் கொள்ளுங்கள். அந்த குறிப்பிட்ட நேரம் உங்களை சோர்விலிருந்து விடுபடவும் உதவும்.

உங்கள் வீட்டின் ஏதோ ஒரு மூலையில் அமர்ந்து வேலை செய்வது சாத்தியமல்லாதது. உங்களுக்கு ஒரு மேசை அல்லது பணியிடத்தை அமைக்க வேண்டும். உங்கள் அலுவலகத்தில் உங்கள் மேசை எவ்வாறு இருக்குமோ அதேபோல பராமரிப்பது மனதிற்குப் புத்துணர்ச்சி தரும். மேலும் விளக்குகள் இருக்கும் இடத்திலிருந்து பணி செய்ய வேண்டும். முடிந்தால் இசை கேட்டபடி நீங்கள் உங்கள் வேலையை செய்யலாம்.

தினமும் உங்கள் வேலையைத் தொடங்குவதற்கு முன்பு குளித்துவிட்டு ஆரம்பிப்பது ஒரு நல்ல செயல். நல்ல ஆடைகளை அணிவது, வழக்கமாக நீங்கள் அலுவலகம் செல்லும்போது செய்யும் சிறிய மேக்-அப் போன்றவற்றை செய்வதில் தவறேதுமில்லை. இது உங்களை மிகவும் புத்துணர்ச்சியுடன் உணர வைக்கும். மேலும் சிறப்பாகச் செயல்பட உதவும்.
Locking down doesn’t mean drinking up

Taking To The Bottle At Home To Cope With Anxiety During A Crisis Can Make Things Worse: WHO Expert

Andy Gregory  28.03.2020

Alcohol is an “unhelpful coping strategy” for the possible stress and isolation of coronavirus lockdown, a World Health Organisation (WHO) expert has warned.

The UN agency acknowledged that many turn to drugs and alcohol in times of crisis, as a new survey suggested the pandemic has caused nearly two thirds of adults in the UK to feel anxious or worried.

But using substances to cope “can make things worse”, said Aiysha Malik of WHO Europe’s mental health and substance abuse department.

It is also vital that drug and alcohol services remain accessible throughout lockdown, Malik said, as those with substance use disorders may face a higher risk of relapse.

The warning comes a day after the government added off-licences to the list of “essential” businesses allowed to stay open during lockdown, emboldening pubs and breweries in their bid for permission to launch takeaway services.

Experts suggest there is a thin line to tread between alleviating the strain on business, ensuring dependent drinkers avoid withdrawal, and encouraging increased alcohol use among the wider population.

Amid fears the NHS could be stretched beyond capacity by an influx of Covid-19 patients, the risks of withdrawal and alcohol-related injury or health complications are particularly potent.

“While keeping off licences open is consistent with clinical advice to protect those who are physically dependent on alcohol from going into dangerous withdrawal, they wouldn’t want to unintentionally send the message that alcohol is ‘essential’ to all our lives,” Alcohol Change UK’s chief executive Richard Piper said.

Piper warned that “with routines out of the window we might well find ourselves reaching for a drink more often”.

Initial reports of supermarkets running out of alcohol and online retailers being overwhelmed with orders may point to a possible increase in consumption, but experts say it is too early to tell the overall impact that coronavirus will have on the nation’s drinking habits.

But it is logical to predict that alcohol only being available for home consumption may lead to rises in domestic violence, fires and potential increases dependence, according to James Morris of South Bank London University’s centre for addictive behaviours research.

“Predicting the longerterm behavioural impact is however particularly difficult. Perhaps for some, home drinking may become more embedded, potentially exacerbated by the further closure of already struggling pubs and bars,” Morris wrote for the ‘Society for the Study of Addiction’.

“For others, the period could highlight how valuable public and social drinking settings are, resulting in a boom in drinking out to celebrate the end of isolation.” THE INDEPENDENT

NOT A HELPFUL COPING STRATEGY

Friday, March 27, 2020

'கொரோனா'வால் தினசரி இழப்பு 35-40 ஆயிரம் கோடி ரூபாய்

Updated : மார் 27, 2020 04:49 | Added : மார் 27, 2020 04:47 |

மும்பை: 'கொரோனா' தொற்று பாதிப்பு காரணமாக, நாட்டின் பொருளாதாரத்தில், தினசரி, 40 ஆயிரம் கோடி ரூபாய் இழப்பு ஏற்படும் என, 'கேர் ரேட்டிங்ஸ்' நிறுவனம் தெரிவித்துள்ளது.

இது குறித்து, இந்நிறுவனம் மேலும் தெரிவித்துள்ளதாவது:தற்போதைய, 21 நாள் முடக்கத்தின் காரணமாக, 80 சதவீத உற்பத்தி இழப்பு ஏற்படும் நிலையில், நாட்டின் பொருளாதாரத்தில், தினசரி, 35 ஆயிரம் முதல், 40 ஆயிரம் கோடி ரூபாய் வரை இழப்பு ஏற்படும். மொத்தத்தில் இழப்பு, 6.3 - 7.2 லட்சம் கோடிரூபாயாக இருக்கும்.

இந்த மதிப்பீடு, நடப்பு நிதியாண்டின், மொத்த உள்நாட்டு உற்பத்தி மதிப்பான, 140 - 150 லட்சம் கோடி ரூபாய் என்பதன் அடிப்படையில் செய்யப்பட்டுள்ளது.இருப்பினும், முடக்கம் என்பது, 21 நாட்கள் என்பதை தாண்டி, 30 அல்லது 60 நாட்கள் வரை நீடிக்கவும் வாய்ப்பிருக்கிறது.

நான்காவது காலாண்டில், வளர்ச்சி எதிர்மறையாக இருக்காவிட்டாலும், 1.5 - 2.5 சதவீதமாக குறைய வாய்ப்பிருக்கிறது. மிகப் பெரிய கவலையாக இருப்பது, வேலைவாய்ப்பின்மை தான். முன்பை விட இப்போதைய நிலையில், இது மேலும் அதிகரிக்கும்.இவ்வாறு தெரிவித்துள்ளது.
A long road

The unprecedented lockdown can work only if governments help people stay homebound

26/03/2020

India’s unprecedented 21-day national lockdown is an unparalleled effort at stopping the march of a fast-spreading scourge that has overwhelmed the health infrastructure of several nations. Although the Centre seems to have thought of such a move in advance in a bid to flatten the curve of transmission of the novel coronavirus, the enforcement has left millions of people unprepared for the severe disruption. The janata curfew, on Sunday, ahead of the lockdown was obviously a drill for the three-week imposition, but the government failed to anticipate the complex issues involved in confining over a billion people to their homes. Of course, as a public health measure, the full national lockdown announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi is being welcomed by the medical community as a necessary measure to cut the transmission chain of the virus. Fresh arrival of travellers from abroad has already been stopped, and three weeks is long enough to allow for symptomatic cases of COVID-19 disease to emerge. This should give the government sufficient time to plan a treatment response. But for the lockdown to serve its purpose, it should lead to wider testing of all suspected cases. Regrettably, the lack of planning on the lockdown resulted in another bout of crowding, with people rushing out to buy essential supplies and medicines. There were instances of mindless police violence against workers performing routine jobs. The virtual curfew could have been made far less stressful through prior discussion with the States, and unambiguous communication to the public. Clearly, State agencies did not follow the order issued by the Home Ministry under the Disaster Management Act, 2005, spelling out provisions on essential services.

If the prolonged lockdown is to be executed without too much trauma for the general public, there has to be a war room approach. Chief among the measures needed is reliable access to food, water, medicines and emergency assistance. Here, some States have moved early and announced cash relief and free rations. The challenge is to ensure effective implementation. Again, if movement is to be restricted, essentials must be delivered virtually at the doorstep. This is enabled explicitly by the Home Ministry’s order. Allowing delivery of medicines by pharmacies is important and essential personnel must be given passes that protect them from police harassment and ensure movement of goods. There is also a deplorable trend of social discrimination against health workers handling COVID-19 cases, which must be sternly dealt with. The onus is on the Central and State governments to provide for everyone during the lockdown, and they should be working round the clock. Otherwise, people will be forced into a situation where breaking the curfew might seem the safer alternative to deprivation and suffering in isolation.

The efficacy of a protracted three-week-long countrywide lockdown in the fight against the pandemic aside, what is very clear is that the shutdown is set to bring the approximately ₹200-lakh crore national economy close to a shuddering standstill. The ramifications are already so wide-ranging that measuring the fallout merely in terms of lost economic output would be grossly inadequate. The hardest hit are the millions of daily wage earners, the self-employed and small businesses, and the rural landless poor. Vulnerable segments of the workforce face the immediate prospect of a lack of income as well as hunger. On a larger scale, with public transport services now withdrawn and private vehicular movement severely restricted to the barest delivery of essential services, it is hard to see how people employed even in vital sectors of manufacturing or the utilities would be able to reach their workplaces. While the Finance Minister on Tuesday announced a welcome slew of tax and regulatory compliance-related deadline deferments as well as some credit-related relief to the MSME sector, the combined steps will at best be of marginal help to tackle the unprecedented economic crisis. Any package to address it therefore demands a set of mitigation and subsequent stimulus measures that would need to be of an exceptional scale and require implementation on a war footing.

For a start, the Centre must abandon its fiscal deficit goals at this moment of a worldwide healthcare and economic crisis that is set to tip the global economy into a recession, at the very least in the near term. In keeping with what some State governments as well as most developed economies have already announced, the Centre needs to immediately release sizeable cash grants to all persons with Jan-Dhan accounts and BPL ration cards and use its various social welfare schemes including PM-KISAN and MGNREGA to ensure that the reach of such financial aid is maximised countrywide. The plan must also encompass a broad swathe of spending measures. These should include substantial investments in public health infrastructure targeted at COVID-19 treatment — for which a beginning has been made with an allocation of ₹15,000 crore — as well as provisions for free services to all financial aid recipients; loan repayment holidays and a wage bill subsidy to all MSME businesses that retain their workforce at pre-crisis levels; and once the lockdown is lifted, a huge public infrastructure creation backed spending push to generate jobs and restart economic activity. A modest doubling of the budgeted fiscal deficit figure for 2020-21 could see about ₹16-lakh crore being freed up for the Centre to both spend directly and provide capital support in the form of grants and subsidies to State governments and banks. The government would do well to use the crisis as a once-in-a-generation opportunity to address both the economy’s and the public’s well-being. The lives and livelihoods lost to the pandemic should not be in vain.
How can India contain the economic impact of COVID-19?

The government must focus on health and livelihood issues at the same time

27/03/2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has effectively brought normal life to a halt in India. The importance of social distancing and a lockdown in curbing the spread of the virus cannot be stressed enough, but these measures also have huge repercussions on livelihoods and the economy at large, which has already been seeing a slowdown over the past year. In a conversation moderated by Vikas Dhoot, Naushad Forbes and M. Govinda Rao talk of ways in which India can tackle this humanitarian and economic crisis. Edited excerpts:

Do you see a parallel in recent history to the situation we face globally due to the novel coronavirus?

Govinda Rao: This is the mother of all challenges in recent memory. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says that the 2008 financial crisis comes close, but I think this is much bigger than that. Possibly, one has to go to the times of the Great Depression. Even qualitatively, it’s a very different challenge, because first you have to save lives, then you have to save livelihoods, then you have to meet with other costs like loss of jobs and production, and supply chain disruptions. It’s not just confined to one sector or country; it encompasses the entire economy and the world. So, I think there is no immediate policy instrument that you can put in place because you don’t even know how long the problem will last. The depth of the problem that you are going to face is dependent on the length of the period for which you are going to close down and the extent to which the virus spreads.

Naushad Forbes: Every country is either already deeply affected or is at the start of being more affected. This is unprecedented in terms of its immediate impact on the lives of individuals from all walks of life. We have a few additional factors in India: an economy which relies very heavily on informal employment, so our reliance for people’s well-being on the broader economy performing and the markets performing is high, whatever role the state may try to play. And anything that you change in the functioning of the economy has unintended effects.

We sometimes have, I think, a tendency to act and then plan. I worry about that. For example, on Saturday, all manufacturing companies in Pune were told to shut down. On Sunday, all trains were stopped. And on Monday, all companies were told, ‘Look, you must keep supporting your staff and contract workers.’ Now, the sequence should have been the reverse: first, you work out which companies will ensure support for everyone across the board and how. Then you stop the trains so that you contain populations [moving]. And then you close the actual sources of employment. If you do it in the opposite sequence, you end up with what we saw on Saturday and Sunday, which is thousands of people crowding into train and bus stations, heading out of town, potentially spreading the virus across the country. This is obviously an unintended consequence. We sometimes act first without going into what we actually want to achieve. The way to achieve ‘social distancing’ is not to announce something which then brings suddenly crowds of people together in a panic [but] to do something for their own security, well-being and longer-term success. A little bit of thought before we act would really help.

Over the last few days, both the formal and informal sector have come to to a virtual halt. Lakhs of truckers are held up across States and most manufacturing firms have shut down. How will this impact our output and incomes?

NF: Everything’s come to a halt. The lockdown is the right thing to do for the country. From everything one reads, [we get the idea that] a lockdown is the way to ensure social distancing and contain the virus.

How do you then limit the economic impact and who do you need to buffer the impact for? Without question, it is the people who are most vulnerable, those who live from day to day and have no savings to fall back on. Then you look at medium to small companies with very limited staying power. The only way they can actually survive is by not paying people. You don’t want that to happen, otherwise you’d spread that distress in the economy. You need to address their concerns, either through moratoriums on principal and interest payments or direct salary support, as we’ve seen happen in the U.K., Switzerland and France, to ensure some employment is sustained. Then you need to extend it to larger labour-intensive companies if they employ 20,000 people and if they don’t have enough money to pay salaries next month we’re going to see something rather critical happen within a week.

GR: One of the biggest problems in the system is the capacity of the state to deal with the problem. The reaction that we have is a knee-jerk reaction. Today, you cannot worry about issues such as fiscal deficit. You have to save people’s lives. There is a 21-day lockdown and redistribution is a major issue. Thankfully, you have a much better targeting device [Jan-Dhan accounts and Aadhaar] than before. Augmenting the state’s capacity... I don’t know how you’re going to do it.

At 8 p.m., the Prime Minister says we are closing down for 21 days, and everyone runs to the shops and panics. Couldn’t this have been done in a smoother way? One could have said essential supplies will be available — simply saying there’s a lakshman rekha outside your house, that really scares people.

The immediate issue is to focus on health, which we have never done, and see how you can establish the public health system. And the second is livelihood issues.

Regulatory compliance deadlines have been extended, but non-performing asset recognition norms remain 90 days (of defaults). Would you say this regulatory forbearance is sufficient?

NF: It’s a classic case of ‘necessary but not sufficient’. These are all the right things to do. You can have regulatory forbearance and extend regulatory forbearance for returns that have to be filed, but if there is some question on whether you will survive long enough to file your returns, then you need to address that.

If we start by recognising that we have very limited state capacity, then we can think about how to get the desired outcome with an assumption of limited state capacity. For example, I would like to see a massive publicity campaign on what social distancing means and why it’s important to do. Regardless of what announcement comes, people should know not to crowd outside a shop together.

And if my action in announcing something is going to prompt just this, let me first send out all the reassurances that grocery stores will be open. The government has said that, but if you read the actual notification, it doesn’t say how groceries will get to homes. There are some vague references to it being delivered. That sounds to me like a horrendous task to take on if state capacity is limited... delivering groceries to 1.3 billion people. Instead, rely on people going and doing the right thing. So, you say, ‘grocery stores are going to be open and here are the rules under which people can go and buy groceries. Grocery stores can decide for themselves if they wish to be open 24 hours. We will allow a maximum of so many people per square foot. We are counting on the grocery stores themselves to maintain this for their own health. We will encourage everyone not to go in a group.’ You can specify all of this ahead of time and reassure people that there’s going to be no issue.

There has been a lot of clamour for shutting down the stock markets.

GR: A lot of things can now be done at home with online trading. To the extent that crowds can be avoided, it is important. But that doesn’t mean that you should shut down the stock market. It is a barometer... in the immediate context, it may not tell you what your economy’s doing if something is happening the world over. But you don’t kill the messenger, it gives you a message.

Three weeks from now, what would be the best-case scenario for us to be in?

NF: We should, by the way, do some scenario planning for what’s the best- and worst-case scenario and what’s in between. For those scenarios, we must have action plans in place that are transparent so people can prepare accordingly. The best-case scenario to me is that the three-week lockdown delivers. We shouldn’t expect the rising trend of cases to change for a minimum of 10 days before a successful lockdown can have an effect (because of the gestation of the virus). The best-case scenario is that 10 days from now, we start seeing a flattening of the growth rate. A few more days later, we see the curve starting to turn down. Then we can say the lockdown is working, now how do we start working towards recovery. We should put those plans in place now.

We will not go back to normal from day one, where everyone can do whatever they wished. Can all manufacturing start again? Does everyone show up at work all at once? If you have the curve pointing down sharply, maybe 50% can come back and we’ll see for another two or three weeks how that sustains. Shops can open again, but with limited operations and all the social distancing in place. You probably should not allow anything which involves mass gatherings of people even in the best-case scenario. So, you’re not going to have large conferences, movie theatres, sports stadiums. Those will come last. I really think there’s a lot of value in this plan being as transparent as possible.

GR: The first thing that the government will have to do immediately is massively ramp up testing. We have not done enough testing as yet and do not know the magnitude of the problem. Even if you take the best-case scenario after three weeks, this will be different in different places. You may have to look at differential relaxations in a calibrated and transparent manner and say that areas with these trends can allow some of these activities. My own feeling is that after 21 days, there will be some areas where you can have economic activities without much movement, and restrictions will have to continue elsewhere. But we should be prepared for the long haul. Life is not going to be easy.

My big concern is about children not going to school. Some from well-off families may learn on the computer, but what about those children who cannot go to school, can’t play, or do anything. About 40% of the population is in the age group of zero to 14. We really have a crisis brewing there.
Treat your pets like family during lockdown, say experts

TNN | Mar 26, 2020, 12.00 AM IST

Pet parents in Tamil Nadu are in a fix. With misinformation doing the rounds that pet animals can spread COVID-19, animal lovers are perturbed. Adding fuel to the fire was the report that two dogs had tested positive for Coronavirus in Hong Kong. In India, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) in Maharashtra and other civic bodies had put up hoardings asking people to stay away from pets as a precautionary measure. All this led to people abandoning their furry friends. Though health officials have stated that there is no evidence of animal to human transmission of the virus, it seems some people are not in a mood to listen.

Humane Animal Society, an animal welfare organisation in Coimbatore, has been flooded with calls asking them to take their pets in the shelter. “We have got a number of calls, but we are trying to educate people that the disease doesn’t spread from animals. This is the time for social distancing from people not animals,” says Mini Vasudevan, founder of the organisation.

Michael Abraham of CSK Pet Point, Mylapore, in Chennai, says that he, too, received calls from people asking him to help find a shelter for their pets. “These are people who are going back to their home town from Chennai following the lockdown,” he says.

Animal lovers bear the brunt

“My owner has asked me to move out of the house,” laments Anusha R (name changed), who recently moved to Delhi from Coimbatore. “The only reason being that I have a dog. I tried to explain to her that dogs cannot spread the virus, but in vain.” R Kannan from Gomathipuram in Madurai, on the other hand, has been missing his morning jog with his dog, Veenu. “It’s tough to keep her inside the house. She looks dull. We both need a break.”

There’s good news, too

However, Reshmi Anil Giri, a resident of Prince Highlands, Iyyappanthangal, says that she is glad her gated community is understanding of pets. “Before moving here, the first thing I checked was whether they allowed pets or not. The residents in the apartment are friendly with pets, but I stopped taking her out, to be on the safer side,” she says.

Pets don’t spread Coronavirus

Ask Dr Chinny Krishna, co-founder of Blue Cross of India, about the concerns among pet owners and he says, “Organisations like The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) have sent notifications saying that pets don’t spread Coronavirus."

There is no cross-transmission, says another veterinarian. “Only Section 144 has been imposed. You can take your dog out and go for a walk. Just ensure that you take all the precautionary measures while you do that,” he adds.

Dr G Venu Gobal, veterinary surgeon at JSR pet multi-speciality hospital, Coimbatore, says that pet owners need not panic. “All you need to do for the next 10-15 days is to restrict the movement of dogs outside the house. If you step out, you will be at risk of contracting the virus. It’s advisable to avoid food from outside as well and instead, feed them homemade food.”

No clarity on whether pet shops should be open or not
Pet store owner Michael Abraham feels that pet shops should be open during lockdown. “If pet shops are closed, many animals will suffer. My shop is located in Mylapore and I have regular customers, who buy food for stray dogs during their morning walk and feed them. This will completely stop and the dogs would go hungry,” he says.

Agreeing with him is another pet store owner in Anna Nagar. “We still have no clarity on whether the shops should be open or not. We have to get clarity from the Pet Shops Association. We have birds and small animals inside the store and we are really worried about them,” he says.

When quizzed if there has been an increase in sales after the announcement of lockdown, Michael says, “We received many calls for kitten food. As far as dogs are concerned, you need not worry as you can feed them most of the human food.”

Ensure to take precautionary measures, say experts

Dr Chinny Krishna asks pet lovers to take precautionary measures. “Wash the paws of dogs after you come back home from their walk. Social distancing is applicable to pets as well. Ensure that they do not come in close contact with other animals or people when taken outside.” Mini Vasudevan adds, “This is the time to be there for the animals. All you need to do is practise basic hygiene and not allow them near an unknown person.”

Advisory from Animal Welfare Board of India

A large number of pet shops or animal breeding facility where animals and birds are kept for sale are now shut down due to lockdown/curfew. The animals stranded in such places are likely to suffer and die without food, water and temperature control. All such pet shops are to be evacuated by the State Animal Welfare Boards through SPCAs (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty Against Animals). It is requested to kindly issue necessary directions to all district authorities to check the pet shops in the locality for searching of animals, if any and evacuate them.

Tuesday, March 24, 2020

Owlets rescued near Tiruvarur

TNN | Mar 24, 2020, 04.02 AM IST

Trichy: Two owlets that fell from a tree on Monday were rescued in Tiruvarur district and handed over to the forest department on Monday.

Estimated to be about 10 days old, the owlets belong to the Barn Owl species. They were being chased by stray dogs and crows before they were rescued by the locals and handed over to the forest department. Barn Owls, which are among the 32 species of owls found in India, are protected under schedule-III of the Wildlife Protection Act 1972, said head of Zoology department at National College Trichy, V Gokula.

Wildlife biologist K Sasi Kumar confirmed that the owlets belong to the Barn Owl species. Tiruvarur district forest officer K Arivoli said that rescued owlets are fine and are kept under observation. They will be released in a couple of months.

Monday, March 23, 2020

‘Thanked you doctors, police’

23.03.2020

I am a dentist and I put on my scrubs and went to work in the morning. Every day we handle dental emergencies such as extractions. We have a thorough screening of patients and inform authorities whenever we come across people with a travel history.

At 1pm, I decided to do a small five-minute Bharatnatyam performance on Facebook Live wearing my scrubs as a tribute to healthcare workers and the police who are bravehearts. I choreographed the piece, where I emoted how the emergency services have been working in this time, how they check on those who are quarantined, how they treat people, how they follow up, and, in the end, I saluted them for their services. It was a personal experience that inspired me to do this – I was impressed by the beautiful way in which they did the follow-up for my uncle, who was in quarantine after returning from Australia. The dance was dedicated to healthcare professionals and essential services staff on the front lines. I salute you!

— Dr Sahana Selvaganesh, dentist

Saturday, March 21, 2020

All shops, except pharmacies, to remain closed on Sunday

Restaurants have decided to join the curfew

21/03/2020, SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT,CHENNNAI

The Koyambedu wholesale market complex will remain closed on Sunday, in view of the nationwide people’s curfew announced by the Prime Minister on Thursday night, as a measure to combat COVID-19.

About 4,500 shops in the vegetable, fruits and flowers market will be closed between Saturday midnight and Sunday night. The foodgrains market too will not function.

S. Srinivasan, president, Chennai Fruits Commission Agents’ Association, said that the market generally received about 800 lorries, every day, bringing in produce from different parts of the country.

They have been informed to refrain from visiting the market on Sunday.

“We are holding awareness programmes at the market with market management committee authorities and distributing soaps and masks. We have also sought screening facilities for COVID-19 at the market next week,” he said.

The Tamil Nadu Vanigar Sangakalin Peramaippu has asked traders in the State to support the Janata Curfew on Sunday.

“All shops, except pharmacies, will be shutdown on Sunday. There are over 21 lakh shops in the State and 4 lakh shops in the city,” said Ve. Govindrarajalu, general secretary of the Peramaippu.

Meanwhile, several city-based organisations working towards restoration of waterbodies have cancelled activities involving volunteers to commemorate World Water Day on March 22.

Environmental Foundation of India, an environmental conservation group, has stopped programmes for the last 10 days.

Arun Krishnamurthy, founder, EFI, said, “We have stopped eight events, including lake clean-ups, in the western suburbs, to ensure volunteers’ safety.”

The Consortium of Indian Petroleum Dealers (CIPD), an all-India organisation of petrol bunks with over 54,000 outlet owners as its members, too has decided to support the Janata Curfew on Sunday.

CIPD general secretary K. Sureshkumar said that bunks would remain open with skeletal staff in case of emergencies.

The night staff will remain at the outlets and continue duty on Sunday, he added.

Restaurants have decided to join the curfew.

“When the Prime Minister gives such a call, it is our duty to join in the effort. There are around 1 lakh restaurants in the State with 50 lakh employees, all of whom will be asked to remain at home. We will shut shop on that day,” said M. Venkadasubbu, president, Tamil Nadu Hotels Association.
Coimbatore man held for posting Covid-19 rumour on Whatsapp

TNN | Mar 21, 2020, 04.17 AM IST


COIMBATORE: A 43-year-old self-proclaimed medical practitioner was arrested on Friday for spreading rumours on Covid-19 on YouTube and WhatsApp.

S Baskar alias ‘Healer’ Baskar, of Arivozhi Nagar in Kovaipudur Selvapuram, was held based on a complaint lodged by Dr G Rameshkumar, deputy director, public health department, Coimbatore.

In his complaint to the Kuniyamuthur police on Wednesday, Rameshkumar said ‘Healer’ Baskar was circulating an audio message on WhatsApp and a video on YouTube stating Covid-19 outbreak was a depopulation measure ordered by the “Illuminati” across the globe.

“All the people, who are being isolated, will be eliminated later on. This is the World War-III and allopathy doctors are responsible for this war,” Baskar said in his social media message. The self-proclaimed medical practitioner also said he was in a position to speak about coronavirus and that he has been talking about the same for the past 10 years.

Rameshkumar said ‘Healer’ Baskar was instilling fear among the people of Tamil Nadu and requested the Kuniyamuthur police to take action against him. Subsequently, ‘Healer’ Baskar was booked under Sections 153(A), 504 and 505(i) (b) of the Indian Penal Code.

On Friday, the Kuniyamuthur police arrested ‘Healer’ Baskar and produced him before the judicial magistrate court-VII, which remanded him in judicial custody till April 3. Later, he was lodged in the Coimbatore Central Prison.

Preliminary inquiry revealed that a BE (civil) holder, ‘Healer’ Baskar had studied acupuncture course for two years and set up a centre named Anatomic Therapy Foundation at Kovaipudur. He was arrested in August 2018 for promoting childbirth at home and conducting a class on the same for women. It is to be noted that home births are banned in the state.

Sunday, March 15, 2020

New trend: Drugs come by courier

A 23-yr-old college student was arrested under NDPS for his alleged involvement in the case

Published: 14th March 2020 06:33 AM 


By Express News Service

CHENNAI: An innocuous-looking parcel from The Netherlands that claimed to contain wedding cards had blue ‘punisher’ pills, a mega-dose Ecstasy pills which is apparently three times stronger than most others pills used in rave parties. Addressed to a person in Mysuru, Postal Intelligence officers of Air Customs detained the parcel at Foreign Post Office at Meenambakkam after they found it contained some blue-coloured tablets.

Chennai Air Customs Commissioner Rajan Chaudhary said the tablets were tested with narcotics testing kit and it was found to be methylenedioxy-methamphetamine (MDMA), a narcotic substance.“We found 384 gm of tablets suspected to be MDMA, valued at Rs 30 lakh, and they were seized under NDPS Act 1985,” he said, adding it is one of the major seizures by customs in recent times.

He also said searches were carried out at Mysuru address of the consignee. “The 23-year-old youth, who is a graduate of JSS Science and Technology University in Mysuru was arrested under NDPS for his alleged involvement in the case. He is said to have told officials that the pills are in high demand in parties held frequently in Bengaluru and Mysuru,” said Chaudhary.

Ecstasy and Molly, a party drug that alters mood and perception are chemically similar to both stimulants and hallucinogens and produce feelings of increased energy and pleasure. The seized blue tablets are known blue ‘punisher pills’ bearing skull mark and contain 250-300 mg of MDMA which is a high dosage. This pill has caused numerous deaths in the UK, the commissioner said.

A narcotic substance

The tablets were tested with narcotics testing kit and it was found to be a narcotic substance, one of the major seizures by customs

Sunday, March 1, 2020

தர்பூசணி விளைச்சல் அமோகம்: கிலோ ரூ. 10 க்கு விற்பனை

Added : பிப் 29, 2020 23:40

சென்னை:தமிழகத்தில் தர்பூசணி பழங்களின் விளைச்சல் அதி கரித்துள்ளதால், கிலோ, 10 ரூபாய்க்கு விற்கப்படுகிறது.
தமிழகம் உள்பட பல்வேறு மாநிலங்களில், தர் பூசணி பழங்கள் பயிரிடப் படுகின்றன. முன்னர் கோடைக்காலத்தில் மட்டுமே கிடைத்து வந்த தர்பூசணி, தற்போது, ஆண்டு முழுவதும் விளைகிறது. கோடைக்காலம் துவங்க உள்ள நிலையில், தமிழகத்தின் பல்வேறு மாவட்டங்களில், தர்பூசணி விளைச்சல் களைக்கட்ட துவங்கியுள்ளது. அங்கு அறுவடை செய்யப்பட்டும் தர்பூசணி பழங்கள், லாரிகள், டிராக்டர் கள் வாயிலாக, சென்னை கோயம்பேடு உள்பட, மாநிலம் முழுவதும் உள்ள மார்க்கெட்டுகளுக்கு விற்பனைக்கு வருகின்றன. விவசாயிகள், சாலை ஓரங்களில் வாகனங்களிலும், பிளாட்பாரங்களிலும் வைத்து, தர்பூசணி பழங்களை விற்பனை செய்ய துவங்கி உள்ளனர். சென்னையில், கிலோ தர்பூசணி, 10 ரூபாய்க்கு விற்கப்படுகிறது. அதன்படி, பெரிய அளவிலான ஒரு பழம், 50 ரூபாய்க்கு கிடைக்கிறது. இவற்றை பொதுமக்கள் ஆர்வமுடன் வாங்கி சென்று, சுவைக்க துவங்கி உள்ளனர்.

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