TN State Functions ▪ TN State Government announced that the following birth dates will be celebrated as Sate functions. ✓ M. K. Thyagaraja Bhagavathar (March 1) ✓ K.M. Annal Thango (April 13) ✓ Tamil scholar Dr. Mu. Varadarasanar (April 25) ✓ Anjalai Ammal (June 1) ✓ A.T. Pannerselvam (June 1) ✓ Dr. Muthulakshmi Reddy (July 7) ✓ Diwan Bahadur Dravidamani Rettaimalai Srinivasan (July 7) ✓ Madras Presidency’s Chief Minister Pa. Subbarayan’s (September 11) ✓ Writer Ki. Rajanarayanan (September 19) ✓ Immanuel Sekaran (October 9) ✓ A.P.J. Abdul Kalam’s (October 15) ✓ Allala Ilaya Nayakkar (Thai 1) Adi Dravidar and Tribal Welfare ▪ Minister for Adi Dravidar and Tribal Welfare N. Kayalvizhi Selvaraj made some announcements regarding Adi Dravidar and Tribal Welfare in the Assembly which include ✓ ₹20 crore would be set aside to enable landless SC/ST women who work as agricultural labourers to buy land. ✓ A centralised kitchen would be set up at a cost of ₹9 crore under ‘Amudha Surabi’ scheme in Tiruchi, Madurai, and Coimbatore. ✓ Tribal boarding schools would be refurbished as per the demands and needs of the students. ✓ The government would organise a ‘Lifestyle Festival’ to celebrate the culture, traditions, literary works, linguistic based patriotism of the SCs and the STs. ✓ ‘Skill vouchers’ would be given to SC/ST students who performed well in higher education at the cost of ₹41 lakh. Tamil Nadu Lake Quality Monitoring Project ▪ The Department of Environment and Climate Change has announced the Tamil Nadu Lake Quality Monitoring Project recently. ▪ It will be implemented in water bodies through real-time monitoring and artificial intelligence (AI)- based data analysis. ▪ In the first phase, it will be implemented in the Poondi, Chembarambakkam, Udhagamandalam and Kodaikanal lakes at a cost of ₹5 crore.
