The latest in a series of warning signs from last year about where the economy truly is
I wrote 10 days ago connecting many such indicators and more.
Give it a read
https://t.co/HlktZGsghR
Nepal bans Indian mangoes
Kathmandu's Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development has imposed a complete import ban on Indian mangoes, enforced since April-May at quarantine checkpoints
Excessive chemical pesticide residues were detected in imported consignments. Nepal joins Japan, the EU, and Saudi Arabia in rejecting Indian agri exports over food safety failures
Hire temp works at scale with good short term payout, do on job training, rectify transmission losses, identify max load commercial nodes, push for continued renewable adaption across commercial nodes on a war footing (like how rainwater harvesting happened back in the day) (2/2)
I haven’t spoke up about the tangedco power issues so far because if you go through just my own timeline, the amount of times i have talked about power issues in the past 5 years is a lot.
This is a structural issue indeed but reducing manpower is counterproductive. (1/2)
I strongly suspect a mass firing inside TANGEDCO may happen soon.
We don’t need to be rocket scientists to understand what frequent power cuts indicate. When people are facing repeated power interruptions, something is clearly not right inside the system.
The real challenge for this government may not just be outside politics, but the deeply rooted old power centres inside the administration. Frequent power cuts clearly show how much cleaning up is needed.
Ministers like @CTR_Nirmalkumar have a tough task ahead to identify the blocks, fix the system, and make governance work smoothly for the people.
More strength to the @TVKVijayHQ government. Clean the system. 🙏🏻
@CMOTamilnadu
Highways officials say the ECR-flyover project is under review but it won’t be scrapped.
Minister Aadhav Arjuna has directed highways department to review all the high value projects which were launched in the last six months.
Officials however said the project won’t be scrapped. KNR constructions have got the loan from the bank, and has begun land profiling, soil testing, and preparing designs.
They also said six people participated in tenders, three were rejected and three were selected. Among the three, the L1 was chosen.
The officials say the highways has presented this to the Madras HC in a closed envelop as well, and the L1 got a go-ahead from the Court too after a few other contractors challenged the L1 award.
Hence, the chances of the project being scrapped is minimal as the arbitration costs will sky rocket. They cited examples of the Port-Maduravoyal corridor stopped by former CM J Jayalalithaa.
The contractor also was the same person who constructed the Avinashi flyover in Coimbatore. This is also the first HAM project of Highways where the contractor will spend the entire money to construct the project, and will later collect it through toll.