A 20-member team from Small Scale Industries, Salem, which undertook a nine-day trip to Gujarat, returned here with a bagful of promises from the Gujarat Government. The delegation met Chief Minister Narendra Modi who in his 30-minute interaction had assured the team from Salem that his government would extend all assistance in areas of technology [...]
The State Government has taken steps to implement a dedicated water supply scheme to ensure round-the-clock supply to the people in Salem City, Agriculture Minister Veerapandi S. Arumugam has said. Participating at a free colour television sets distribution programme held here on Thursday, the minister said that the scheme would be implemented at a cost [...]
Police Commissioner Sunil Kumar Singh has asked citizens to wear helmets while driving two-wheelers from New Year Day. Pointing out that helmet should be treated as a life-saving gadget instead of an object of ‘inconvenience,’ the Commissioner said that fatal accidents on city roads had occurred because of non-compliance of the helmet rule. The city [...]
The Indian Railways Technical Supervisors Association has suggested the Railway Ministry to introduce a metro rail system for Salem city. Association president M. Shanmugam, while presenting a report in this regard at the seminar on strengthening the Salem Railway Division held here on Friday, claimed that it is feasible to implement metro rail system in [...]
Steps will be initiated to construct additional buildings for the Corporation Government High School in Azhagapuram Puthur, State Agriculture Minister Veerapandi S. Arumugam has said. He was speaking at a function after inaugurating a modern sanitary complex constructed at a cost of Rs.17.60 lakh at Jallikadu here on Saturday. The minister pointed out that many [...]
Students and staff members of Indian Institute of Handloom Technology (IIHT) took out a rally here on Tuesday to promote use of handloom clothes. Retired Senior Manager of Co-optex (Research and development) K. Krishnamoorthi flagged off the rally at the institute premises. The rally, organised jointly by the institute and Weavers’ Service centre, passed through [...]
People residing in Kamaraj Nagar, Ward 8, are facing serious health threat due to stagnation of sewage on the streets. Lack of proper drains in the area has led to the stagnation, posing health hazard to the residents. Being one of the important localities in the ward, Kamaraj Nagar has been facing problems owing to [...]
After the completion of 4 lane works on NH7 around Salem. Seelanaickenpatti Grade seperator was pending for long time. Now this flyover is opened for traffic partially, only the vechiles bound for namakkal side can take the flyover from kondalampatti side. This flyover is initially designed to take vehicles bound to Namakkal and attur side [...]
“Salem district is fast emerging self-content in infrastructure needs with good road, rail and air connectivity, which will be much conducive for sweeping industrial development in western zone next to Coimbatore,” according to Veerapandi S Arumugam, Agriculture Minister. The Minister detailed various mega development works of the State and Central governments being executed at a [...]
Construction works for providing infrastructure for the Information Technology Park will be taken up on Friday. Salem district administration has organised a function for the same in which Agriculture Minister Veerapandi S. Arumugam and IT Minister Poongothai Aladi Aruna would participate. Inspecting the site here, Mr. Arumugam said that ELCOT, the nodal agency for the [...]