The three-day summer and flower festival, which concluded here on Sunday, attracted 7,657 tourists from far and near. Inaugurated by Commercial Taxes Minister S. N. Ubayadulla and presided over by the Agriculture Minister Veerapandi S. Arumugam on May 28, the festival featured nearly one lakh flowers of different varieties to woo the tourists. The main [...]
T. Velusamy, Senior Divisional Financial Manager, Salem Railway Division (extreme right) receiving the shield from Kamala Narasimhan (centre) in the presence of S. Raghuraman, Financial Advisor, Southern Railway (extreme left), in Chennai recently. The Accounts Department of Salem Division has bagged the first-ever Narasimhan Rolling Shield for the year 2009-10 for its excellent performance. The [...]
The Yercaud Summer Festival is on and tourists from neighboring districts and states are crowding here at Yercaud and cheering the festival, flower shows are in stage and boat race, dog shows are planned and all the hotels/resorts rooms are filled, this is one part of the story. The other part is, Due to lack [...]
In Addition to installing high mast lamps at Chathiram flyover, the Salem Corporation will start repairing the damaged side walls of this flyover and constructing a new platform for pedestrians. The Salem Corporation officials visited the site couple of days back and assured that the repair work will start soon and the required fund will [...]
A Bangalore-based private helicopter firm, which finds Salem a viable place for operating its services to tap the tourist potential in Yercaud town is looking out for 5000 square feet of vacant land adjacent to city for its landing and take-off. The copter firm, which is in touch with the Salem-Dharmapuri Chamber of Commerce, has [...]
The Salem branch of the Export Credit Guarantee Corporation of India Limited (ECGC), during the last financial year of 2009-10, has earned a total premium income of Rs. 2.86 crore and settled claims amounting to Rs.1.88 crore were paid to exporters of granites, readymade garments and textiles. According to a press release from its Branch [...]
The students of Government Colleges and Government Polytechnic Colleges in Salem, Namakkal, Dharmapuri and Krishnagiri districts can apply for their free bus passes through Salem and Dharmapuri transport offices. A press release from K Gnanasekaran, Managing Director, Salem Division of Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation further points out that the applications should be sent through [...]
Better transparency:Salem Corporation conducted census 2011 – training for enumerators and supervisors on Thursday. — To ensure error-free census-2011, the Salem Corporation has taken necessary steps by organising a special month-long training for enumerators, officials of Salem Corporation and teachers who have been appointed for this massive work. Survey Presided over by Commissioner K S [...]
The new high mast lamps are installed in Chatiram flyover and Cherry road. The Salem Corporation initiated this activity at the cost of 14 lakhs rupees. Driving in Chatiram flyover at late evening time is a night mare for all riders due to darkness, now the problem is solved by installing high mast lamp at [...]
The State Government sanctioned 100 new buses for TNSTC Salem Division. The TNSTC Salem Division which provide services to Salem, Namakkal, Dharmapuri & Krishnagiri Districts is having 1100 Fleets for its daily operations and 200 fleets as spare. Some of the buses in its fleet are very old and bad in condition. Hence the TNSTC [...]