Control room set up to assist children orphaned by COVID-19
The Hindu
The district administration has formed a special team and set up a control room at the Collectorate to provide assistance to families and children who were orphaned by COVID-19 pandemic. District Coll
The district administration has formed a special team and set up a control room at the Collectorate to provide assistance to families and children who were orphaned by COVID-19 pandemic. District Collector S. Karmegham said that the State government had announced various relief schemes for children who lost single parent or both parents to the disease. To ensure better implementation of the scheme, a special team named ‘Undrukol’ had been formed in the district and a control room set up at the Collectorate for the purpose, Mr. Karmegham said.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.