CHENNAI: With its focus on making citizen services easily accessible and its efforts to reach out to the population in the rural areas and also provision of business services, Tamil Nadu has emerged as the pioneer in the e-governance initiative.

According to a recent survey by IDC Dataquest, Tamil Nadu has been ranked No. 1 in e-governance with satisfaction levels among citizens and businesses quite high.

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VELLORE: The Ministry of Railways has taken an ‘in-principle’ decision to operate bullet trains in Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra and Punjab, which have expressed willingness, according to R. Velu, Union Minister of State for Railways.

New facility: R. Velu, Minister of State for Railways (third from right) and Durai Murugan, PWD Minister (second from right), inaugurating the ROB in Pallikonda-Palamaner Road near the Gudiyatham Railway Station on Tuesday. M.P. Saminathan, Minister for Highways and Minor Ports (fourth from right), K. Allaudin, Principal Secretary, Highways and Minor Ports and Vellore Collector C. Rajendran are in the picture.

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CHENNAI: Senior citizens longing for companionship in their old age and those forced to live in poorly equipped and ill ventilated old age homes now have help on hand as the Tamil Nadu government plans to set up an ‘eco-friendly’ village for them on the outskirts of the city.

The proposed village, to come up on 10 acres of land at Thundalakazhani, is estimated to cost around Rs 4.7 crore. It will be modelled along the lines of the ‘Tamaraikulam,’ a village for senior citizens set up by Helpage India at Cuddalore, official sources said.

About 160 senior citizens will be housed in duplex residential blocks in this village, four to each block. The village will have all amenities like banks, ATMs, salons, shops, recreation club, medicare unit and a yoga and meditation centre. An open space is also proposed, where they can move about freely.

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