Adi Dravidar families to get ₹500 for Deepavali, says CM
The Hindu
Govt. order issued to enhance salaries of Ponlait employees from November
The government will provide a sum of ₹500 each to ration card holders belonging to the Adi Dravidar community to buy clothes during Deepavali festival, said Chief Minister N. Rangasamy on Tuesday.
Talking to reporters after issuing orders enhancing salary of employees in the government-owned Cooperative Milk Producers Union, popularly known as Ponlait, the Chief Minister said the amount to buy clothing material would be remitted to the beneficiaries’ account very soon.
He said the minimum salary of employees in Ponlait had been enhanced to ₹10,000 per month. Daily rated casual labourers, working for more than five years and earning ₹176 per day, will hereafter be eligible to earn a daily wage of ₹430, and those working for less than five years and earning ₹176 per day will be eligible to draw a daily salary of ₹330 per day. For both the sections of employees, the salary would now range between ₹13,000 to ₹10,000 per month. The enhancement will come into force from November 1, the Chief Minister said. Also, steps were being taken to fill 10,000 vacancies in various departments. Recruitment of around 300 homeguards would be soon held.
A crowd comprising farmers, researchers, professors, students, and horticulture enthusiasts thronged the ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (IIHR), Hesaraghatta, Bengaluru, on Friday for the inaugural ceremony of the Triphal Diversity Show which showcased 300 mango, 100 jackfruit, and 100 banana genotypes in collaboration with ICAR-National Research Centre for Banana, Tiruchirappalli.
The State government on Friday constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT), headed by Additional Director-General of Police, Manish Kharbikar of the Economic Offences division of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to probe the alleged multi-crore scam in the government-run Maharshi Valmiki Scheduled Tribes Development Corporation.