ஐஆர்சிடிசி சார்பில் ஆக.29-ல் மதுரையில் இருந்து உலகின் உயரமான படேல் சிலைக்கு சுற்றுலா ரயில்: தமிழகத்தில் இருந்து முதல்முறையாக இயக்கப்படுகிறது

ஐஆர்சிடிசி சார்பில் ஆக.29-ல் மதுரையில் இருந்து உலகின் உயரமான படேல் சிலைக்கு சுற்றுலா ரயில்: தமிழகத்தில் இருந்து முதல்முறையாக இயக்கப்படுகிறது

சென்னை  17.08.2021

தமிழகத்தில் இருந்து முதல்முறையாக, குஜராத்தில் உள்ள உலகின் உயரமான படேல் சிலைக்கு ஐஆர்சிடிசி சார்பில் சுற்றுலா ரயில் இயக்கப்படுகிறது. இதில் ஜெய்ப்பூர் கோட்டைகள், உதய்பூர் ஏரிகளைக் காணவும் ஏற்பாடு செய்யப்பட்டுள்ளது.

இதுதொடர்பாக ஐஆர்சிடிசி அதிகாரிகள், சென்னையில் நேற்று கூறியதாவது:

நாடு முழுவதும் கரோனா பாதிப்பு குறைந்து வருவதால், மாநில அரசுகள் பல்வேறு தளர்வுகளை அளித்து வருகின்றன. நீண்டநாட்களாக வீட்டிலேயே முடங்கியிருந்த மக்களும் வெளியூர்கள், சுற்றுலாத் தலங்களுக்குச் செல்ல ஆர்வம் காட்டி வருகின்றனர். அதன்படி, தேவைக்கு ஏற்ப, ஆன்மிக மற்றும் இயற்கை எழில் மிகுந்த சுற்றுலாத் தலங்களுக்கு மீண்டும் ஐஆர்சிடிசி சுற்றுலா ரயில்கள் இயக்கப்படுகின்றன. மக்களும் ஆர்வத்துடன் டிக்கெட் முன்பதிவு செய்து வருகின்றனர்.

இந்நிலையில், குஜராத்தில் இருக்கும் உலகின் உயரமான சர்தார் வல்லபபாய் படேல் சிலையைக் காண, தமிழகத்தில் இருந்து முதல்முறையாக ஐஆர்சிடிசி சுற்றுலா ரயில் இயக்கப்படுகிறது. ஜெய்ப்பூர் கோட்டைகள், உதய்பூர் ஏரிகளைக் காணவும் ஏற்பாடு செய்யப்பட்டுள்ளது.

மதுரையில் இருந்து இந்த சுற்றுலா ரயில் வரும் 29-ம் தேதி புறப்பட்டு, திண்டுக்கல், கரூர், ஈரோடு, சேலம் வழியாக சென்னை வந்து, பிறகு ஹைதராபாத் அருங்காட்சியகம், ஜெய்ப்பூர் கோட்டைகள், உதய்பூர் அழகிய ஏரிகள், குஜராத்தில் இருக்கும் மகாதேவர் கடல்கோயில், உலகின் உயரமான சர்தார் வல்லபபாய் படேல் சிலை ஆகியவற்றைக் காண ஏற்பாடு செய்யப்பட்டுள்ளது.

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Now get building permits within 30 days

Now get building permits within 30 days

Corpn Move To Make Process Smoother For Applicants

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Chennai:17.08.2021

Taking a strong note of residents being made to run from pillar to post for getting building approvals, the city corporation has directed all its zonal officials to ensure the documents are issued within 30 days of receiving applications. The civic body is also considering to move the entire process online to reduce hassles.

A circular from the executive engineer (works) in the corporation headquarters, issued last week on instructions of GCC commissioner to all zonal officers and headquarters engineers concerned, stated that all applications should be dealt with within 30 days unless there are valid reasons for delay.

“Residents and commercial establishments were being made to run in circles without being told what the procedure to obtain building approvals was. The circular will help applicants be informed of the process,” a senior GCC official said.

The circular also gives a clear timeline for processing the applications. Assistant executive engineers are to make a site visit within five days of admitting the application, enter the inspection report online within the next two days and must verify documents within the next five days. If any additional document is needed, a request must be sent to the applicant within 48 hours and the applicant must submit it online within 15 days thereafter. Fee calculation will be done online and the authority will have to provide the approval within 15 days of document scrutiny.

The circular also stated that the corporation is contemplating doing away with the submission of hard copies of documents. Until the process is moved online, a separate counter will be created in every zonal office for receiving documents for applications submitted online, it added. Applicants will be given an acknowledgment with the application number and an entry will be made in the register after receiving the documents.

At GCC headquarters, the document submission counter will be managed by assistant executive engineer on the fifth floor of Amma Maligai.

The powers delegated to zonal officials means that planning approvals for non-high rise residential and commercial buildings (with FSI area of maximum 464.5sqm and ground + first floor or stilt + 2 floors up to a height of 9 metres) can now be sanctioned by zonal executive engineers at zonal offices. They will also process demolition applications.

Only permits for buildings with FSI area above 464.5sqm to 929sqm with 12m height will go to chief engineer (planning) in the headquarters for approval. Buildings constructed to a height of 18.3m will be approved by the GCC commissioner.

Govt staff demand DA revision, stage protest

Govt staff demand DA revision, stage protest

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Madurai:17.08.2021

Seeking revision of their dearness allowance (DA) that has been frozen at 17% and will not be revised till April 2022, thousands of staff and officials from state government departments staged protests and wore black badges on Monday to grab the attention of the Tamil Nadu government. The Tamil Nadu government employees association (TNGEA) carried out demonstrations at various government offices in Madurai, Trichy and Coimbatore regions. The state government is supposed to increase DA whenever the Union government does, according to an agreement between the TNGEA and Tamil Nadu government when M G Ramachandran was chief minister.

State general secretary of Tamil Nadu revenue officials association, M P Murugaian said that the Union government that froze DA from January 2019 has announced revised DA at 28% from last month. But the state government has postponed it by eight months, due to which employees are losing around 10% of their salary for this period.

TNGEA Trichy district vice-president V Mohan said that this agreement has not been honoured this time by delaying the increase of DA. “Our association will decide on our next move in the executive committee meeting to be held in Erode on August 21,” he added.

The protesters also sought scrapping of the contributory pension scheme that is in effect from 2004 and introduce the old pension scheme. Their other demand included releasing the Rs 25 lakh compensation for the kin of frontline workers who died in the second wave of Covid-19.

Guru Tamilarasu district president of Tamil Nadu government all department pensioners association said that nearly 7.5 lakh pensioners across the state are affected by the frozen DA.

In Coimbatore, the protests took place at 15 places including district collector office, Thudiyalur ITI, HR and CE office, PF office in Kavundampalam and in front of Sulur taluk office. The association's district secretary B Senthil Kumar and president Balraj led the protest in front of the district administration.

The Tamil Nadu government employees association (TNGEA) carried out demonstrations at various government offices in Madurai, Trichy and Coimbatore regions

Medico hits four people on Ring Road

Medico hits four people on Ring Road

Chennai:17.08.2021

Police in Poonamallee have booked an MBBS student after her car ran amok on the Outer Ring Road (ORR) leaving four people injured and damaging at least five bikes parked on the road on Sunday evening.

The accident took place when the student tried to take the service lane, but her the car plunged onto the main road.

Police said Kavya of Alwar Thirunagar, a fourthyear medical student of a private college, was driving the car with one of her friend. She was on her way to Poonamallee. She lost her grip on the car and instead of applying brakes, she pressed the accelerator.

In the impact, the car rammed the vehicles. The car is said to have hit a group of people standing there, including a 12-yearold girl, who escaped with minor injuries. TNN

Universities should be our oasis in producing Olympians: Thakur

Universities should be our oasis in producing Olympians: Thakur

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

16.08.2021

Sports minister Anurag Thakur has said that Indian universities should give us Olympians if the country has to improve upon its Tokyo Games performance in future Olympic Games. “We need to involve the varsities.

“University should be our oasis of Olympians. If you look globally, look at Stanford, they won 26 medals this time… In the last Olympics in Rio, they won about 27 medals. So we need to learn from them. And that is why Prime Minister Modi started university sports games that are under the Khelo India programme,” Thakur told Times Now’s Rahul Shivshankar.

“One state-one sport, one corporate-one sport. Why not one district-one sport also? We really need to work in that fashion. You look at the small countries and even universities.

They’re working on specific sports and they put their energies, money and infrastructure to win medals in those respective areas. So India also needs to understand which are the games they can do well in,” Thakur added.

Thakur said corporate houses should come forward and adopt Olympic sports. “We need to involve more corporates into this. We need to hold sports federations more accountable and make sport federations more professional in their working and in their approach as well.

“So, the moment we ask the corporate sector to get involved, each corporation should adopt one Olympic discipline and support it with the best of their capabilities at district, state, whatever level they can… We need corporations and business leaders to think sport, if we want our nation to take sports and sportspersons a lot more seriously."

Giving the example of the cricket board (BCCI) Thakur said: “We created a lot of infrastructure in cricket, where we now have a lot of academies, stadiums. Not a single rupee has been spent by any government, it has been created by the BCCI. We can do the same by involving more corporates into this, they can create infrastructure. Globally, you have seen that stadiums are built by many corporations.

“They build them, they own them and give it to the various federations to run them. That can be done here. City corporations can also do it, like the BMC can step forward for instance.”

Thakur said India should look to be among the top 25 countries in the 2028 Olympics.

“When we are celebrating the 75th year of Independence, let us also target for the next 25 years where we want to reach.

“We should have shortterm, mid-term, and longterm goals. As far as the 2028 Olympics is concerned, India should look to be among the top 25 countries and for the next few years we should target being among the top 10 countries in the world.”

PM giving same speech for 7 yrs, but no impact on ground: Cong

PM giving same speech for 7 yrs, but no impact on ground: Cong

New Delhi:  16.08.2021

Congress on Sunday accused PM Narendra Modi of using his Independence Day speech to make announcements without ever following through on them.

Leader of opposition Mallikarjun Kharge said for seven years India has listened to the “same speeches” by the PM with nothing being done for any aggrieved section, including small farmers.

“He announces new schemes, but these are never implemented or seen on the ground. And now, by bringing the three new farm laws, he has spelled doom for the farmers,” he said.

Kharge also took exception to the PM targeting previous regimes on the issues of small farmers and development, saying the country will not progress by criticising Congress from the ramparts of the Red Fort again and again.

“Congress has done a lot of work like providing irrigation systems for the farmers. Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi waived farmers’ debt when the UPA was in power,” he said.

CPM chief Sitaram Yechury said the PM failed to offer an assurance on the Covid situation or the shortage of vaccines.

Congress’s communication chief Randeep Surjewala also took a swipe at the PM over his announcement of Rs 100 lakh crore investment in the infrastructure sector, saying this was merely a repeat of what was announced in 2019. TNN

Govt doc, nurse jailed for taking bribe

Govt doc, nurse jailed for taking bribe

Rajiv.Kalkod@timesgroup.com

Tumakuru:  16.08.2021

A special court in Tumakuru on Friday sentenced a government doctor to seven- year simple imprisonment and a fine of Rs 20,000 for accepting a bribe of Rs 4,000 from a patient and refusing to discharge her until the amount was paid.

The court also sentenced a nurse, who acted on behalf of the doctor and accepted money from the family members of the patient, to threeyear simple imprisonment and slapped a fine of Rs 10,000. The orders were passed by VIIth Additional District and Sessions Court and Special Court for Prevention of Corruption Act Judge S Sudindranath. Dr K Mamata and HS Gangamma, the nurse, have been sent to Tumakuru district prison.

Lokayukta police had trapped the duo on September 8, 2014 inside Kunigal government hospital while accepting the bribe. The patient’s family members had already paid Rs 6,000, but Mamata demanded Rs 4,000 more while refusing to discharge Jayamma. Mamata had demanded Rs 10,000 to operate Jayamma, a widow and farmer from Kunigal, for uterus-related issues in the first week of September 2014. Jayamma’s daughter Nandini had sold their cow to arrange the amount.

Public prosecutor N Basavaraj said the recorded conversation between Nandini and Mamata played a vital role in establishing the allegations. “Nandini had recorded the conversation with Dr Mamata. In one such call, Mamata shouted at her for the delay in paying the balance amount. She also warned Nandini that she would not discharge her mother until they pay the whole amount,” Basavaraj said.

The doctor had taken Rs 4,000 from a poor patient and refused to discharge her after surgery for failing to pay more