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State unveils scheme for residential buildings

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Source : The Hindu Date : 01.07.2009

State unveils scheme for residential buildings

Special Correspondent

Meant for economically weaker sections in Chennai, suburbs

CHENNAI: The State government on Tuesday unveiled a scheme of additional floor space index (FSI) for residential buildings, meant for economically weaker sections, in Chennai and surrounding areas.

According to the scheme, an additional FSI of 50 per cent will be given to those buildings that have dwelling units of not exceeding 30 sq.m of floor area each. In the case of buildings with dwelling units of up to 50 sq.m. of floor area each, the additional FSI will be 30 per cent.

Suba Thangavelan, Minister for Slum Clearance and Accommodation Control, announced this while wrapping up a debate in the Assembly on the demands for grants to Housing and Urban Development department.

In respect of slum-dwellers who lost their homes while works of road widening or building bridges were being taken up, an additional FSI of not more than 20 sq.m would be given in the form of transferable development rights.

Many suburban localities of the Chennai Metropolitan Area were located in Tiruvallur district which were witnessing developments on a large scale. It had been decided to form a local planning authority for Tiruvallur and take steps for regulated growth.

As for the formation of Outer Ring Road, the Minister informed the House that land acquisition for the first phase of the proposed road had been completed except for about 250 metres. The length of the road in the first phase was 29.2 km from Grand Southern Trunk Road at Vandalur to Chennai-Tiruvallur High (CTH) Road. In the case of the second phase (CTH Road to Tiruvottiyur-Ponneri-Panjetty (TPP) road over about 33 km), land acquisition had been completed for 15.3 km and the balance was likely to be completed this year.

Last Updated on Thursday, 02 July 2009 06:20
 

Proposal to computerise water distribution gets sanction

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Source : The Hindu Date : 30.06.2009

Proposal to computerise water distribution gets sanction

Staff Reporter

Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition System to be established


Rs. 3.15 crore to monitor the storage and distribution of drinking water

Tenders for the scheme to be floated shortly after getting the technical sanction


TIRUNELVELI: The Managing Director of Municipalities, P. Senthil Kumar has given administrative sanction for the corporation’s proposal to establish Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition System (SCADA) at a cost of Rs. 3.15 crore to monitor the storage and distribution of drinking water to the residents from the ground-level and overhead tanks in various areas under its jurisdiction.

After the civic body proposed to execute two major drinking water schemes at a cost of Rs.22.22 crore for the benefit of residents in six wards and to integrate all existing and future drinking water schemes to ensure effective distribution of the ‘white gold’ in sufficient quantity to its residents, it was decided to computerise the drinking water storage and distribution system.

Since more than 10 drinking water schemes were in operation here with the perennial Tamirabharani River being the fulcrum of these projects, it was decided in December 2007 to follow Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition System (SCADA) in the distribution of drinking water to the residents and maintenance of the infrastructure associated with this foremost responsibility of the local body.

SCADA systems, a branch of instrumentation engineering, include input-output signal hardware, controllers, human – machine interfacing (HMI), networks, communications, databases and software.

Centralised

The term SCADA usually refers to centralised systems which monitor and control entire sites or complexes of systems spread out over large areas (on the scale of kilometres or miles). Most site control is performed automatically by Remote Control Units (RTUs) or by Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs).

SCADA, used in power plants as well as in oil and gas refining, telecommunications, transportation, and water and waste control, is a category of software application program for process control, the gathering of data in real time from remote locations in order to control equipment and conditions. The system includes hardware and software components.

The hardware gathers and feeds data into a computer that has SCADA software installed.

Records and logs

The computer then processes this data and presents it in a timely manner. SCADA also records and logs all events into a file stored on a hard disk or sends them to a printer and warns when conditions become hazardous by sounding alarms.

Since the system is found to be handy and effective in various industries, the corporation got the council’s approval and sent it to the Ministry of Local Administration.

“Based on our submission, Dr. Senthil Kumar has given administrative sanction for this project and tenders for the execution of this scheme would be floated shortly after getting the technical sanction. We would have to send the progress report on or before 10th of every month,” Mayor A.L. Subramanian said.

He also informed that Rs. 3.24 crore had been sanctioned by the State government for giving new lease of life to the existing drinking water distribution system and construction of drainage channels, both at Melapalayam.

Last Updated on Tuesday, 30 June 2009 06:43
 

Health management systems, boon to people

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Source : The Hindu Date : 30.06.2009

Health management systems, boon to people

P.S.Suresh Kumar

Rs. 50 crore to be allotted during the second phase

Nagercoil: The State government has launched Health Management Information System in all Government hospitals and Health Management System in all Primary Health Centres, which evoked very good response as more and more people approached government hospitals for better treatment free of cost, said S. Vijaya Kumar, Director, Tamil Nadu Health Project.

He said that under HMIS, basic details of out-patients would be computerised and an identity number would be given. All these details would be kept for ever and if a patient from Kanyakumari Government Hospital or Primary Health Centre wants to continue treatment at Arakkonam, doctors would be able to get all details of the patient in the computer as all systems were linked with the server in the headquarters at Chennai. As officials update all medicines available in Tamil Nadu Medical Service Corporation, doctors would be able to access information about what medicines need to be given to the patient. Various lab tests were carried out under this system and later computerized to facilitate the doctors to refer the patient to the doctor concerned. The lab results would also be given to the needy patient at free of cost.

Steps had already been taken to provide computers in all Primary Health Centres throughout the State in order to analyze the nature of disease under the Health Management System. In the first phase, a sum of Rs. 15 crore had been allotted for the implementation of Health Management Information System in Kanyakumari, Krishnagiri, Pudukottai and Theni. In the second phase, a sum of Rs. 50 crore would be allotted for the remaining districts.The case sheets would be computerized to inform the paramedical staffs and dieticians about what should be provided (medicines and food) to the particular in-patient.

Regarding the disposal of bio-medical waste, Vijaya Kumar said that the Government was spending huge amount to ensure that the environment was free from pollution. Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board had permitted to set up a bio-medical disposal yard in nine places in different parts of the district. All the bio-medical wastes from Kanyakumari district would be taken to Tirunelveli to dispose it under contract basis.

It has also been decided to provide a five-day inter-personnel training programme to doctors and other para-medical staffto treat the patients with a smiling face, he said. There were around 2.5 lakh persons affected by HIV/AIDS throughout the State. Of that 45,000 were undergoing Anti-Retro Viral Treatment. As there was a chance for the HIV affected persons to be affected with tuberculosis, steps were taken to prevent it, said Mr.Vijaya Kumar.

Last Updated on Tuesday, 30 June 2009 06:38
 


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