TN CM reviews implementation of five major government schemes Chief Minister M.K. Stalin chaired a meeting of the District Development Coordination and Monitoring Committee (DISHA) to review the implementation of five major schemes in the State. The five schemes include implementation of the MPs Local Area Development Scheme, the National Health Mission, the Integrated Child Development Scheme, the National Food Security Act and the Prime Minister’s Model Village Scheme. Procuring equipment designed by IIT Madras to avoid the death of workers while cleaning sewers, increasing the unit cost of houses constructed under the Prime Minister’s Housing Scheme, renaming villages and streets with caste surnames, installing more electric crematoriums in local bodies, ensuring crematoriums for all sections of society and increasing the income slab for availing the Post Matric Scholarship were among the issues that had been raised at the meeting. T.N. mahouts and cavadies set to train in Thailand Thirteen mahouts/cavadies from the Anamalai and Mudumalai Tiger Reserves are set to visit the Thai Elephant Conservation Centre in Thailand for training and capacity building to learn how to manage camps and look after elephants better. The programme will involve an expenditure of ₹50 lakh, and tiger foundation funds will be used for the purpose. Tamil Nadu is already a pioneer in the rehabilitation and maintenance of captive elephants. The camps at Theppakadu in the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve and Kozhikamuthy in the Anamalai Tiger Reserve. are some of the ol dest elephant camps in the country. There are a total of 63 elephants, cared for by 37 mahouts and 28 cava dies, at these camps. On the occasion of World Elephant Day 2022 (12 August) Tamil Nadu notified Agasthyamalai Elephant Reserve as its 5th Elephant Reserve with a total area of 1,197.48 sq.km at Agasthyamalai in Tirunelveli and Kanyakumari district. This…
