Chennai news live: Vaccine recipients’ tally crosses 4 lakh mark in Tamil Nadu

To counter the raft of promises made by chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami, DMK president M K Stalin has readied a vision document for Tamil Nadu “to usher in a new dawn”. The new administrative framework envisions “massive industrial and infrastructure development and a crime free state that ensures protection to women, children and the elderly”.

Taking serious note of exploitation of captive elephants at the hands of their owners and caretakers, the Madras high court has asked the Tamil Nadu government to take a policy decision to prohibit private ownership of elephants by individuals and temples.

After almost five decades of existence, six houses and18 shops built illegally on the MGR canal along Ramsamy Salai at K K Nagar were removed by the corporation on Tuesday freeing about 200sqm space.

With fuel prices soaring across the country, drivers attached to ridehailing apps such as Ola and Uber have resorted to demanding extra money from customers to keep themselves afloat.

Chief minister Edapaddi K Palaniswami on Tuesday inaugurated a slew of Greater Chennai Corporation projects, including the Namma Chennai Smart City prepaid card and the Rs 40.7 crore multilevel car parking (MLCP) facility at T Nagar.

The state discharged 453 patients from the Covid-19 registry, and added 442 fresh cases on Tuesday which pushed the cumulative case tally to 8,49,166. There were 4,074 people in the active cases list. The state reported six deaths due to the viral infection until Tuesday noon, which took the Covid-19 death toll to 12,472.

"Tamil Nadu people will not trust anyone other than the government headed by CM EPS. We will return to power to complete all the works and projects as listed in the interim budget, " says OPS in his concluding remark, after presenting the budget.

Rs 3,700 crore has been allotted for PM urban housing scheme.

Rs 34,181cr has been set aside for school education.

Rs 6,683cr has been allocated for the Coimbatore metro rail project.

The Tamil Nadu government has set aside Rs 8,834 crore in the 2021-22 budget to give subsidy on power bills.

Rs 440cr has been set aside for rural roads, Rs 18,750cr for highways.

The Tamil Nadu govt allocates Rs 2,470 crore for the construction of 11 new medical colleges. The state will get additional 1,650 seats.

Rs 6.941cr has been allocated for the Cauvery-South Vellaru river link project.

The Tamil Nadu govt has allocated Rs 11,894 crore for the agriculture sector.