Failure to revise ‘Contracted Demand’ leads to ₹4.88 crore excess power charges in 10 Tamil Nadu government buildings, says CAG report

Failure of the departments to revise the ‘Contracted Demand’ based on actual electricity consumption resulted in an excess expenditure of ₹4.88 crore on power charges in 10 government buildings in Chennai. And inaction on the part of the government to undertake correction of power factor in another government building resulted in an avoidable expenditure of…

POSH Act is not anti-men, says NCW chairperson

The Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act (POSH Act), 2013, is not against men but aims to ensure justice for women, chairperson of the National Commission for Women (NCW) Vijaya Rahatkar said here on Tuesday (April 29) at a meeting held to review the implementation of the Act. The Act…

CPI leaders meet Stalin, Udayanidhi

CPI leaders who met Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin invited him to the party’s State conference in Kerala in September this year and to the party’s centenary celebrations.   CPI national secretariat member and Kerala State secretary Binoy Viswam, Kerala Revenue Minister K. Rajan and Tamil Nadu State secretary R. Mutharasan besides the party…

Spices Board host awareness programme on organic production

P. Hemalatha, Secretary, Spices Board inaugurated one-day sensitisation programme on the 8th edition of the National Programme for Organic Production (NPOP) on spices. B. N. Jha, Director (Marketing), Spices Board; Saswati Bose, General Manager, APEDA, Dharmendra Das, Director (Development), Spices Board and . Joji Mathew, NPOP Lead Auditor were present. The Spices Board, in collaboration with…