திருவட்டார் அருகே தனியார் கல்லூரி பஸ் மோதி 3 பேர் இறந்தனர். தம்பதியினர் ஆஸ்பத்திரிக்கு காரில் சென்று கொண்டிருந்த போது இந்த துயர சம்பவம் நடைபெற்றது.
கன்னியாகுமரியில் உள்ள ஒரு தனியார் கல்லூரி பஸ் வகுப்பு முடிந்து மாணவ- மாணவிகளை ஏற்றி வந்து கொண்டிருந்தது. பஸ் திருவட்டார் அரசு பள்ளி அருகே வந்த போது டிரைவர் கட்டுப்பாட்டை இழந்து தாறுமாறாக ஓடியது. ஆரம்பத்தில் ஒரு வேன் மீது லேசாக மோதிய பஸ் பின்னர் ரோட்டோரம் நடந்து சென்று கொண்டிருந்தவர்கள் மீது மோதியது. இதனால் பாதசாரிகள் அலறி அடித்து தப்பிக்க ஓடினர். திருவட்டார் பஸ்ஸடாண்ட் அருகே சென்ற போது முன்னால் சென்று கொண்டிருந்த கார் மீது பஸ் மோதியது. மோதிய வேகத்தில் கார் அதற்கு முன்னால் சென்ற மினி டெம்போ மீது மோதியது. பஸ்சுக்கும், மினிடெம்போவுக்கும் இடையில் சிக்கிய கார் அப்பளம் போல் நொறுங்கியது. இதில் காரில் இருந்த மூன்று பேரும் சம்பவ இடத்திலேயே இறந்தனர்.
ஆஸ்பத்திரிக்கு செல்லும் வழியில் துயரம்: அருமநல்லூரை சேர்ந்தவர் கரிமணியாபிள்ளை. இவரது மனைவி நீலம்மாள், 68 உடல்நலக்குறைவால் பாதிக்கப்பட்டிருந்தார். திருவனந்தபுரத்தில் தனியார் ஆஸ்பத்திரியில் சிகிட்சைக்காக ஒரு காரில் இருவரும் சென்று கொண்டிருந்தனர். காரை ஜீவா ஓட்டினார். அருமநல்லூரில் இருந்து நாகர்கோவில் வழியாக சென்றால் டிராபிக் அதிகமாக இருக்கும் என்பதால் இவர்கள் தடிக்காரன்கோணம், குலசேகரம் வழியாக வந்த போது இந்த துயர விபத்து நடைபெற்றுள்ளது.
காரில் மோதுவதற்கு முன்பு ரோட்டோரம் நின்று கொண்டிருந்த பைக், வேன் போன்றவற்றில் மோதியதில் பத்து பேர் படுகாயம் அடைந்தனர். இவர்கள் தனியார் ஆஸ்பத்திரிகளில் அனுமதிக்கப்பட்டிருந்தனர். விபத்துக்கு காரணமான பஸ் டிரைவர் போதையில் இருந்ததாக அப்பகுதி மக்கள் குற்றம் சாட்டியுள்ளனர். திருவட்டார் போலீசார் வழக்குப்பதிவு செய்தனர்.
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தக்கலையில் தரமற்ற பொருட்களால் வாய்க்கால்
கன்னியாகுமரி மாவட்டம் தக்கலை அருகேயுள்ள திருவிதாங்கோட்டில் தரமற்ற பொருட்கள் கொண்டு வாய்க்கால் கட்டப்படுவதாக பொதுமக்கள் குற்றஞ்சாட்டியுள்ளனர். பேச்சிப்பாறை அணையில் இருந்து கரைக்கண்டார்கோணம் பகுதிக்கு தண்ணீர் கொண்டு செல்ல இந்த சிறிய வாய்க்கால் கட்டப்பட்டு வருகிறது. இந்த வாய்க்காலை தரமான பொருட்கள் கொண்டு அமைத்துத் தர வேண்டுமென்பதே பொதுமக்களின் கோரிக்கையாக உள்ளது.
Source : Puthiyathalaimurai
Pon Radhakrishnan,Minister of State for Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
Pon Radhakrishnan, the new Minister of State for Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises in Narendra Modi-led Government, said that he will focus on Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL’s) development.
He also said that he will take steps to bring more heavy industries to Tamil Nadu and will look at bringing more small industries to southern districts, especially to Kanyakumari, from where he won the Lok Sabha election.
Fondly called ‘Ponnar’ by the BJP party cadres, the 62-year old Pon Radhakrishnan hails from a wealthy and eminent Nadar family from Alathankarai, Nagercoil. He contested in the BJP seat from the Kanyakumari constituency.
One of the factors which worked in Radhakrishnan’s favour in the 2014 Lok Sabha election, the electors, especially among first-time voters, that he will get an influential portfolio if the BJP forms the government, due to his proximity to Modi. He can bring more infrastructure projects and investments to this region.
Besides tourism, Kanyakumari and nearby places have not seen much industrialisation.
Speaking to a television channel he said, “I will focus on BHEL’s development, considering it a major heavy industry in the State,” he said. It may be noted that the public sector company currently has plants in Tiruchi, Ranipet and at Pudukottai.
He added, he will take steps to bring new heavy industries to the State to create employment. Speaking about Kanyakumari, from where he was elected to the Parliament, Radhakrishnan said, “in Kanyakumari there are no crorepathis, ideal is small industries. At the same we will look at viable options to bringing heavy industries here,” he said.
He also said soon he will meet Uma Bharati, who is holding Water Resources portfolio at the Centre, to discuss issues related to Cauvery and Mullaiperiyar. The other issues, which he says he will take to the respective Ministries are of the welfare of fishermen and Sri Lankan Tamils.
Radhakrishnan known for his closeness to the BJP’s high command in Delhi, especially with Modi and Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who appointed him as the Minister of State for Youth Affairs in the Union Cabinet headed by his Government between 1999 and 2004. Later, he also served as Minister of State for Urban Development and Poverty Alleviation.
Radhakrishnan’s efforts to establish a ‘Youth Village’ of the Sports Authority of India in Kanyakumari district was then well received by the public.
But his efforts never took off as suitable land for this ambitious project could not be identified then and hence the anxious wait continues.
A lawyer by profession, Radhakrishnan joined the Hindu Munnani, a right-wing organisation in the 1990s. In the 1999 Lok Sabha elections, he first won on a BJP ticket from Nagercoil. The party had won three other seats in the same elections.
Radhakrishnan lost the same seat in 2004 and 2009.
Source : Business Standars
Ground Water level of Kanyakumari considered to be safe : What about other Districts ?
A study of ground water level in the state has presented a bleak picture. The assessment by the State Ground and Surface Water Resources Data Centre in 2009,the latest to be undertaken,has identified 138 panchayat unions, constituting 36% of the total panchayat unions in Tamil Nadu, as over-exploited,where extraction of ground water is more than recharge.The worst hit districts include Vellore,Madurai,Coimbatore,Trichy,Thanjavur,Salem,Tiruvannamalai,Namakkal,Perambalur and Dindigul.
The situation in Kanyakumari, Nilgiris,Sivaganga and most parts of Pudukkottai is considered to be safe.
Surface water is almost harnessed, the ground water level has become all the more critical. Unless environmental policies are adhered to and water harvesting facilities are put in place,the state will lose all its ground water resources in a decade, said K Santhanam, senior scientist at Sathyabhama Universitys Centre for Water Research.The disturbing trend is that several panchayat unions continue to remain over-exploited,though the first warning came in a similar assessment in 2003.At least 14 panchayats in Vellore,10 in Salem and Thanjavur,nine in Trichy and seven in Villupuram face crisis.
Failure to harvest water,improper care of water bodies and exponential growth of industries and population resulted in several panchayat unions moving from safe to over-exploited and semi-critical to critical state with regard to ground water levels.In Tiruvallur,ground water is overexploited to meet the needs of the neighbouring Chennai.The ground water in some panchayat unions in the coastal district of Ramanathapuram,which was once considered safe,has now been assessed as poor quality because of sea water incursions and over-exploitation.The rivers are polluted and have become carriers of sewerage.I do not know how we are going to restore them, said Prof S Janakarajan of Madras Institute of Development Studies.
Geologists advise construction of check dams across rivers,sub-surface dykes (built under water),recharge shafts,percolation ponds and sustained efforts to harvest rainwater in buildings besides restraining large-scale conversion of cultivable lands into residential plots.Utmost care should be given to over-exploited areas.With the help of highresolution satellite images,we can get data on the nature of terrain and accordingly provide water storage facilities, said hydro-geologist Dr S Thillaigovindarajan of Institute of Remote Sensing,Anna University.The state government has now decided to launch an elaborate biennial assessment of the ground water level from this year onwards.
Source : Times of India
Eraniel palace in Nagercoil – Once a treasure house of Venad now in complete choas
The Eraniel palace, about 20 km from Nagercoil, is regarded as a treasure house of the Venad history but its present state is a pale shadow of its glorious past.
The palace, now under the control of Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowment Department of the State government, has traditional architectural characters from temple architecture of south India. Its notable features are low-tiled roofs, structures with central court yard (nadumuttam) and gable windows. According to sources in the Kerala government’s Archaeology Department, Cheran Perumal, the most famous ruler of the Chera dynasty of the 8th century A.D., was said to have constructed the Eraniel palace and fort over an extent of around 3.5 acres of land.
The palace lost its importance after the Venad dynasty shifted its capital to Padmanabhapuram on completion of the Padmanabhapuram Palace around 1601. Two hundred years later, when Veluthampi Dalawa (Thalavai) was the chieftain of the Travancore kingdom during 1802-1809, it gained prominence again. One of the streets in Eraniel is called ‘Padayetti Theru’ as it was from there that Veluthampi led an army to take on the British. On re-organisation of States in 1956, the Kanyakumari district became part of Tamil Nadu and the Eraniel palace and its fort came under the control of Devasom Board. The palace was used as godown for some years and this hastened its dilapidation.
At the entrance is the visitor’s hall (yogamuri). It was where the then kings met select visitors. Beyond this is the inner hall (agathalam), guard’s room, and kitchen. Next is the royal bedroom (vasantha mandapam) with a granite cot of five-foot width and six-foot length, made of a single stone. The palace was only an administrative office of the then kings but not the residential palace as their royal residence – Pamanabhapuram palace – was hardly five km from Eraniel. There was a ‘vaadavilakku’, an ever burning light, in the vasantha mandapam.
Besides the chambers in the palace, there is a small tank for the royal bath and a secret tunnel for emergency escape. There were 23 tamarind trees on the premises of the palace. Of them, tamarind from one tree was very sweet and it was said to be used for the Kings.
According to former Director of Archaeology (Kerala government), V. Manmadhan Nair, who was closely associated with the conservation of the Eraniel palace for years, when Jagmohan was Union Culture Minister during 2001-2004, a proposal was submitted to him during his visit to the palace. Mr. Jagmohan had assured all kind of help to restore the palace to its past glory. The proposal was based on materials prepared by the Agency for Providing Traditional Solution on the Restoration of Built Heritage at Padmanabhapuram (as suggested by the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage).
N. Ramasamy, Kollam-based conservation architect, suggests that the palace, after restoration along with the execution of necessary landscaping (with the help of old photographs) be converted into a museum. He points out that a lot of stone sculptures (in damaged condition), a tank and some antiques such as sword are under the custody of HR &CE Department of the Tamil Nadu government.
At present, the whole area is inaccessible due to thick growth of shrubs and bushes. It has become a haven for anti-social elements.
The government should declare this palace a heritage monument and bring it under the Ministry of Culture, Government of India, says R. S. Lal Mohan, convener of the Nagercoil chapter of INTACH. The HR&CE Department here has sought the government’s financial support for its proposal to renovate the palace at a cost of Rs. 2 crore. A committee, under the chairmanship of the District Collector, has also been proposed to supervise the execution.
Source : The Hindu