The lockdown has hit the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) works in the district.Though there was no restriction on providing employment to the workers of MGNREGA due to
The Animal Husbandry Department provides veterinary services at the doorstep in villages of the district through ‘1962’ animal ambulance toll-free number since imposition of lockdown on May 10. Veteri
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Private nursery and primary schools find themselves in a predicament
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The over 200 nursery and primary schools in the district that had to helplessly watch a chunk of students shifting to panchayat union schools due to the lockdown have their fingers crossed against the backdrop of strong indications that the 2021-22 session may not begin with in-person classes.
While matriculation schools could manage to survive by paying less salaries to teachers citing the low collection of fee, the private nursery and primary schools where parents in rural parts used to send their children for English-medium education find themselves stranded.
Major urban forestry initiative begins at Konalai
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Women planting saplings at Konalai village in Tiruchi on Thursday.
| Photo Credit: SRINATH M
Planting of 1.5 lakh saplings at Konalai in the outskirts of Tiruchi has begun. It is part of a major urban forestry initiative and the eight one in the district, after Pullambadi, where 20,000 saplings were planted. The other projects being Lalgudi (15,000 saplings), Srirangam and Samayapuram (10,000 each), Irungalur (1.5 lakh), Poonampalayam (50,000), and Inam Samayapuram (8,000 saplings). The urban forestry initiative at Konalai is said to be one of the largest in the State, officials said.
Collector S. Sivarasu, who inaugurated the drive planted a sapling as a symbolic gesture. He said the urban forestry initiative would be carried out based on the Japanese Miyawaki model. It would come up on 12 acres of puramboke land. Besides volunteers, environmentalists and officials, workers of the Mahatma Ga