[ecis2016.org] Tamil Nadu CM K Palaniswami has urged defence minister Rajnath Singh to expedite the allocation of land owned by the Defence Ministry, for taking up the expansion of Chennai, Coimbatore and Tiruchirappalli airports
Tamil Nadu chief minister K Palaniswami, on September 24, 2019, called on defence minister Rajnath Singh and requested him to expedite the allocation of land owned by his ministry, for taking up the expansion of airports in the state. Palaniswami met Singh at the Raj Bhavan in Chennai and presented a memorandum, requesting him to expedite the allocation of land for the expansion of Chennai, Coimbatore and Tiruchirappalli airports, an official release said. Palaniswami, during his brief interaction with Singh, also requested him to hand over land owned by his ministry, for the construction of flyovers in Anakaputhur and Pallavaram in Chennai and in Tiruchirappalli.
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Tamil Nadu to undertake comprehensive restructuring programme of public transport
The Tamil Nadu government has said that it will embark on a comprehensive restructuring programme of the public transport sector, which will include the introduction of electric buses in select cities
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January 3, 2019: The Tamil Nadu government is embarking on a comprehensive restructuring programme of the transport corporations, with the support of German bilateral financing agency, KfW, governor Banwarilal Purohit told the state assembly on January 2, 2019, in his customary address to its members, on the opening day of the first assembly session. This will involve replacement of the ageing transport fleet, with fuel-efficient BS-VI buses and procurement of electric buses in metro cities like Chennai, Coimbatore and Madurai, he said.
The governor said transport corporations were operating in excess of 21,000 buses, carrying 1.74 crore passengers per day and added that tariffs in the state, despite revisions in ticket rates, were still among the ‘lowest’ in the country. The government was absorbing the additional costs, arising due to increase in diesel prices and has sanctioned about Rs 268 crores as compensation to the corporations, between January 2018 and October 2018, he said.
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Further, the government would soon release the Tamil Nadu Aerospace and Defence Industrial Policy, to promote aerospace and defence production. “The establishment of industrial hubs for defence products in the Chennai-Vellore-Salem-Hosur-Coimbatore-Trichy corridor, will definitely improve the prospects of Tamil Nadu as a major defence manufacturing force,” Purohit said. The new start-up and innovation policy would also be unveiled by the government ‘shortly,’ he added.
On the education front, Purohit said the government would soon launch a scheme, to extend financial support to NGOs to open schools in interior tribal areas. This was aimed at reaching out to tribal students as literacy among them was significantly lower than the state average, he said.
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