TN CM Vijay meets PM Modi; urges Centre to exempt state from NEET, release pending funds

CHENNAI: At his archetypal NITI Aayog Governing Council gathering connected Thursday, main curate C Joseph Vijay sought the merchandise of pending cardinal funds, including Rs 3,284 crore nether the Samagra Shiksha strategy and Rs 2,284 crore for the Hogenakkal Phase-II Combined Water Supply Scheme, portion pitching a scope of demands for Tamil Nadu.Addressing the council, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Vijay said his govt would enactment constructively with the Union govt portion firmly safeguarding TN’s interests and aspirations.He appealed to the Union govt to exempt Tamil Nadu from NEET and state Thirukkural arsenic a “national literature.” He submitted a database of demands, including support for six nationalist road projects to amended roadworthy connectivity successful the authorities and a 2nd AIIMS successful TN (preferably successful Coimbatore).Referring to the predominant apprehension of Tamil Nadu fishermen by the Sri Lankan navy, Vijay emphasised the value of the livelihoods and information of sportfishing communities. “I impulse the Union govt to support the accepted sportfishing rights of Indian fishermen successful the Palk Bay, guarantee their information and information and unafraid the merchandise of their sportfishing boats,” helium said and sought urgent diplomatic involution to unafraid the merchandise and harmless instrumentality of TN fishermen from Sri Lanka and Pakistan.

Vijay urged the Union govt to enactment imperishable flood mitigation infrastructure successful Tamil Nadu’s coastal cities nether the Climate Resilient Master Plan 2045, noting that the authorities has a 1,076km coastline.“We look guardant to the Union govt declaring the Space Manufacturing Hub astatine Kulasekarapattinam, acceptable up with IN-SPACe, arsenic a National Space Manufacturing Hub, enabling end-to-end manufacturing from propellants to motorboat vehicles and helping the federation pat into the planetary abstraction economy,” helium said. He sought employment procreation nether VB-G RAM-G for authorities agrarian lodging schemes.Later, Vijay met Modi.