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.
