NEW FACILITY:A model shelter for passengers put up at a bus stop on Huzur Road by the Coimbatore Corporation. –

COIMBATORE: The Coimbatore Corporation has initiated the process of putting up bus shelters with digital display of time, temperature and bus timings at 20 locations on Avanashi Road in the city.

Cost

Each shelter will cost Rs.5 lakh to Rs.6 lakh and will have a polycarbonate canopy that sunlight will only filter through, but will not cause hardship to waiting passengers, says Corporation Commissioner Anshul Mishra.

Tags: Paddy

CHENNAI: Paddy productivity in the current samba season in the State is by far the highest in recent times. The State has achieved an average of 5.8 tonnes per hectare this year as against the normal yield of about 4.5 tonnes to 4.8 tonnes per hectare during previous years.

Barring some pockets in Kancheepuram, Thiruvallur, Villupuram, Theni, Tirunelveli, Kanyakumari, Coimbatore and Erode districts, the samba harvest is almost over. Harvest is over on 11.3 lakh hectares, as against the samba paddy coverage of 15.3 lakh hectares.

One reason for the increase in productivity was adoption of system of rice intensification technique on six lakh hectares by progressive farmers.

In Tiruchi district, a farmer had harvested 9.54 tonnes per hectare.

Tags: South trains

CHENNAI: The running time of trains bound for southern destinations from Chennai is expected to come down, with Southern Railway planning to introduce locomotives with higher hauling power, Chief Mechanical Engineer V. Carmelus said on Tuesday.

A Rs.10-crore project for the maintenance of high-speed locomotives such as WDP4 and WDG4 is moving towards completion at the Golden Rock Workshop in Tiruchi. The broad gauge doubling works between Chennai and Madurai, nearing end, would facilitate operation of trains at a much higher speed as it would eliminate unscheduled stoppages for crossings.

Tags: Plastic

Much-needed: Indu K. Mallah, president, All India Women's Conference, the Nilgiris chapter, distributing blankets at Finger Post ,near Udhagamandalam, on Monday.

Udhagamandalam: Women should help make the anti-plastics campaign in the Nilgiris meaningful. This was emphasised at a function organised by the All India Women's Conference (AIWC), the Nilgiris chapter, at Finger Post near here on Monday to mark the International Women's Day celebrations.