கடலூர் மத்திய சிறையில் ஆயுள் கைதிகள் வரையும் அழகிய ஓவியங்கள்

 

கடலூர்:

               கடலூர் ஜெயில் சுவரில் 2 ஆயுள் தண்டனை கைதிகள் நீதிபோதனைகளை எழுதியும், காந்தி, பாரதியார்  கடலூர் ஜெயிலில் தண்டனை கைதிகள் 412 பேரும், விசாரணை கைதிகள் 422 பேரும் அடைக்கப்பட்டுள்ளனர். இதுதவிர தடுப்பு காவல் சட்டத்தில் கைதான 19 பேரும் உள்ளனர். இதில் விழுப்புரம் மாவட்டத்தை சேர்ந்த ஒரு ஆயுள் தண்டனை கைதியும், மற்றொரு ஆயுள் தண்டனை கைதியும் ஓவியம் வரைவதில் கைதேர்ந்தவர்கள்.

                 அவர்கள் 2 பேர் உதவியுடன் கடலூர் ஜெயில் காம்பவுண்டு சுவருக்கு உட்புறமும், வெளிப்புறமும் வெள்ளையடித்து அழகுபடுத்தப்பட்டுள்ளது. இதில் குறிப்பிடத்தக்க அம்சம், சக கைதிகள் மற்றும் பொதுமக்கள் மகிழ்ச்சியாக வாழ்வதற்கான பண்புகள் மற்றம் நீதிபோதனைகளை நயத்துடன் கூடிய வார்த்தைகளால் அந்த 2 கைதிகளும் எழுதியுள்ளனர்.

              இதுதவிர சுமார் 10 அடி உயரத்தில் திருவள்ளுவர், காந்தி, பாரதியார் ஓவியங்களையும் கண்ணை கவரும் வகையில் அழகாக வரைந்துள்ளனர். அந்த வழியாக செல்லும் பொதுமக்கள் நின்று இந்த ஓவியங்களை பார்த்து ரசிப்பதுடன், நீதிபோதனைகளை படித்து மனநிறைவடைந்து பாராட்டி செல்கின்றனர்.

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2000 Prank calls flood 108 helpline in Cuddalore District

             A sizeable chunk of calls made to emergency help line - 108 seem to be nuisance or abusive calls. Out of the 25,000 calls received on an average day all over the state, 500 would be either blank or abusive calls, say harried officials manning these lines.

          A large number of such calls come from children and mischief mongers. Kids just dial 108 for fun, and end up murmuring something the officials cannot interpret, whereas mischief mongers make a bomb threat call or abuse the officials for no reason.

         “The biggest irritant for the emergency service provider so far was a visually impaired caller from Cuddalore who made at least 2,000 prank calls on a single day three months ago who finally landed up behind bars,” said a senior official at the help line. “The facility is often misused to make blank calls and the time taken to respond to distress calls would be around 90 seconds. This blocks the genuine emergency calls related to road accidents, delivery, suicide attempts, heart attack and snakebites,” the official says.

         In some cases, the officials have found the parents encouraging the kids to dial the toll free number just to entertain them while dining. “We have caller identification machines attached. When the officials call back to find out who had made the call, they would either find the mobile numbers switched off or they come up with excuses,” says an official who takes the call. “When we receive such calls from the same number frequently we put them in Interactive Voice Response (IVR) where a recorded voice will answer their call,” said another senior official.

           “If the caller continues with the prank unabated, we will temporarily block calls from such number or inform the police. Pranksters should realise that their calls may take the lives of people who are in need of emergency medical help,” he added.

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Dope-pushers, beware of sniffer dogs in Cuddalore Central Jail

CUDDALORE: 

           Prisons in Tamil Nadu will soon deploy sniffer dogs to prevent smuggling of drugs, mobile phones, explosives and other banned items into the jails by inmates and visitors.

         The department has decided to provide 18 sniffer dogs to nine prisons – Puzhal I and Puzhal II in Chennai, Cuddalore, Vellore, Coimbatore, Salem, Tiruchy, Madurai and Palayamkottai. Each prison will get two sniffer dogs — one to detect explosives and other to detect drugs. Eight dogs are being trained at the Chennai police dog squad while another 10 are being trained in Coimbatore along with the handlers from respective prisons. The dogs will be handed over to the prison authorities across the state by the end of the year.

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Nagarjuna Oil Corporation Ltd to set up captive port at Thiruchopuram in Cuddalore district

            Nagarjuna Oil Corporation Ltd (NOCL) is planning to set up a captive port in Tamil Nadu to support its upcoming Rs 7,160-crore petroleum refinery project at Thiruchopuram in Cuddalore district, according to state highways & minor ports minister Edappadi K Palaniswami.

            The port will be a part of the company’s additional investment of Rs 2,500 crore to build key infrastructure facilities. It will receive 6.5 million tonnes (mt) of crude oil and ship 2.8 mt of refined petroleum products every year.“The request of the company to assign the development of its captive port to handle other commercial cargo in favour of one of their equity partners, Cuddalore Port Company Pvt Ltd, is under consideration of the government,” said the minister.

           NOCL has achieved financial closure for the refinery project. The 6-mtpa refinery, being developed by NOCL along with the Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation (Tidco), is likely to be ready by December. NOCL has also commenced preliminary engineering work for expanding the capacity to 15 mtpa with an additional investment of Rs 12,000 crore. The expansion will be completed by 2015, according to NOCL.

             L&T Shipbuilding Ltd, a joint venture between Tidco and L&T, is setting up a Rs 4,600-core shipyard-cum-port project at Kattupalli in Thiruvallur district. IL&FS Ltd is to develop a captive port for handling coal for its proposed 4,000-Mw power Plant in Cuddalore district. Goodearth Shipbuilding Pvt Ltd plans to establish a captive shipbuilding yard in Cuddalore, while PEL Power Ltd is setting up a jetty to handle coal for its 1,320-Mw power Plant.

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