Coimbatore: The horticulture department’s Thottakalai Sales Centre on Thadagam Road will soon have a larger medicinal plant section and sport a few outdoor sales counters.
Dr R Brindha Devi, director of horticulture and plantation crops, inspected the outlet, which was the first of its kind to be opened in the state, on Tuesday and issued a slew of instructions to make it more attractive to customers and bring it on par with many private fruit and vegetable chains.
Devi has instructed the district horticulture department to increase the area for sales of medicinal plants. At present, the store has erected a shade net on a side of its frontage to sell medicinal plants such as tulsi, homavalli, thoothuvalai, nagamalli and aloe vera, among others.
Coimbatore: With the Mettupalayam Road blocked at Kavundampalayam, lakhs of vehicles take diversion through Ambrose Road, Church Street, Pannimadai Road and Thadagam Road, especially if they are headed towards the western parts of the corporation limits.
Though the district administration and police guide the vehicles towards these routes, they have not bothered taking simple measures like widening the diversions, relaying the roads or choosing separate roads for heavy vehicles and light vehicles, leading to traffic jams.
Vehicles on the way to Mettupalayam have to take a left into Ambrose Road, another left into the Edayarpalayam-Kavundampalayam Road and then a right into St Joseph Church Road. They have to navigate through JP Nagar and rejoin Mettupalayam Road again.
Coimbatore: The city police blocked a stretch of Sundapalayam Road on Friday after Hindu Makkal Katchi (HMK) took out a protest against the city corporation for razing Agaali Amman temple on the bund of Narsampathi lake.
HMK members led by leader Arjun Sampath blocked the road for almost an hour. “The civic body, which demolished houses on the bund, had promised to spare the temple. But they razed the century-old temple without informing patrons and devotees,” he said. “We want another home for the Amman Goddess in the same location immediately.”
Vehicles were diverted through Burial Ground Road and Seeranaickenpalayam Road. The protest led to huge police deployment along Sundapalayam Road, Thadagam Road and Burial Ground Road.
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Following suggestions and feedback from the members of the public, the Coimbatore Corporation has shifted to its schools the vaccination centres for those in the 45-plus age category.
A release from Commissioner P. Kumaravel Pandian said the civic body would henceforth vaccinate people in North Zone at the Thudiyalur Middle School, Vellakinaru and Saravanampatty primary schools, Gandhi Managar High School, P.N. Palayam Middle School, Sivanandapuram Janatha Nagar Primary School and Chinnavedampatti Primary School.
In East Zone it would hold the camps at Cheran Managar Higher Secondary School, Kalapatti Higher Secondary School, Nehru Nagar Middle School, Masakalipalayam Middle School, Udayampalayam Higher Secondary School, Boys’ Higher Secondary School in Ondipudur, Girls’ higher secondary schools in Ramakrishnapuram and Singanallur and Uppilipalayam, Neelikonampalayam and Krishnapuram middle schools.
Coimbatore: The state government’s decision to stop street vending for time being has come as a big blow to the people making a living by selling flowers, fruits and vegetables on roadsides and pushcarts.
Forty-four-year-old R Ranganayaki is one among the affected lot. Just like every other day, she had purchased about 3kg flowers for Rs 1,500 on Friday night and gave them to the workers to make flower strings. Her hopes of selling them the next morning and use the proceeds to pay the workers, manage household expenses and reinvest in the business were shattered by the government’s decision to keep the venders off the streets from Saturday. Being the sole breadwinner of the family, Ranganayaki has no idea what to do with the flowers or how to manage the expenses.