Budget after marriage!

I have always lived without budget in my bachelor life, which was till last year!
I have lived a lavish life till date, but after marriage I see a sudden change in my life that we have to live under the budget. First of all, the new fact is introduced that I need to prepare a budget for every month and live accordingly.

I have heard previously that more expenses would be there than the income - mostly after marriage!

If you are a bachelor now, please take this 2 cents of advice from me - Go ahead and start saving, while you enjoy your life. I am not telling you to just save, without enjoying your life - but start saving, while you have good time...

It is more valuable to have the money saved in your early days, rather than later. Rs.500 per month in bachelor life is more valuable than Rs.5000 per month in your 40 years of your life! This is a fact and everybody accepts it!

There are couple of ways we can increase your income -
(i) look for a better lucrative job
(ii) work hard in the company you are currently working and aim for a hike in the current job or get promoted
(iii) While you are on job, look for extra income
(iv) Start doing business - More risks you take, there is more possibility of gains as well.
(v) Most importantly reduce your unwanted expenses. That is one most important point of view - which most of the indians try to follow.

Stay Tuned for more microfinance articles like this.

By the way - You are free to take part or full articles from Madurai Times - Made In Madurai Publications - but only one request is please just refer our website name - http://madeinmadurai.blogspot.com

Software Services is a best business - Anytime and NOW

The majority of small and medium-sized companies cannot do business without their PCs and internet connections, according to a survey.

A report by security company McAfee and IT outsourcer WireworX found that 84 per cent of those questioned rated PCs and the internet as " indispensable" to their everyday working life.

But despite this level of dependency, four out of five companies are unhappy with the levels of support provided by IT vendors, and only 14.5 per cent are completely satisfied with all aspects of the purchase and support process.

This shows a right gap for fitting in to do the service business of software. It is even great if it is started in Madurai, to leverage more advantages!!

Read More here

Thank You vnunet.com and Matt Chapman - author name!

5 ways to start a company (without quitting your day job)

I found an interesting business link from CNN Money.com, which is very useful for like minded people like us!! -

Excerpts from the article are -
Odds are, however, that you're still working for someone else. Maybe it's because you're afraid to give up that steady paycheck. Perhaps you're simply terrified by the thought of placing yourself at the mercy of greedy investors, cutthroat competitors, and a potentially indifferent marketplace. Whatever the reason, it's clear that there's a lot of unrequited entrepreneurial longing out there.

Read More here....

New Madurai Commissioner - Mr.Chidambarasamy

The new Madurai city police commissioner, S Chidambarasamy took charge on 29th of May. He conveyed that the present strength is 3,000 police personnel for Madurai and that is more than enough for maintenance of law and order in Madurai.

He said his priority would be the peace and tranquility of the Madurai city. After that comes traffic congestion, but he promised to make sure all of these gets solved.

He also mentioned that there are problems in the police department and the personnel inside the department only. He would give atmost attention to those "kalais".

He also requested the madurai people's co-operation for effective and efficient work of the police department of Madurai!!

Sounds like one another good sign for Madurai!!

Intelenet Global Services in Madurai

Intelenet Global Services, an HDFC-Barclays joint venture, has acquired 50,000 sq.ft of space at Ascendas IT Park in Chennai to ramp up its operations.

Susir Kumar is the CEO of Intelenet conveyed us that they would launch another facility in Chennai shortly. Current company strength is 400, but would increase to 1000 by year end and investment around 25 crores, but expected be doubled!

Most interestingly - Intelenet is looking at a couple of other locations in Tamil Nadu, possibly Coimbatore and Madurai.

Remembering PTR Palanivelrajan's dream for Madurai!

N. Nanmaran (CPI-M), said the best tribute one could pay Palanivel Rajan was to make sure that all his dreams came true. He wanted a Central Institute of Medical Sciences (on the lines of the one in Pondicherry) and an Information Technology Park established in Madurai.

Source: The Hindu, a leading indian newspaper.

Ideas for Government - Madurai Collector Udhayachandran

I recently came across this website -
Ideas for Government

I thought this might be useful for any city governance.
Probably, if Udhayachandran, Madurai Collector takes a look at it, it might be helpful.

By the way - Did you know about Madurai Collector?
Did his B.E., in Namakkal. In 1995, he completed his I.A.S. In 1996, he took charge in Kanchipuram. In 1997, he was a sub-collector in Paramakkudi. In 1999, in Kancheepuram, he was a DRDA planning officer. In 2001, INCOSERV Kunnoor Managing Director. He worked in TASMARC. He was also in fact - Chennai Deputy Commissioner.

He was also the managing director of ELCOT company. This is the first time he is becoming a collector and that too for Madurai, after his 11 years IAS career.

He has taken pledge of getting Madurai a place in the map of Information Technology of India.

Simply Great!! Madurai is all set for becoming the first IT hub for the south tamil nadu region!! We are too excited about this fact!!!!

Madurai IT park News and Updates - Top IT companies to land in Madurai

The top 10 Information Technology Companies in India would participate in the "Madurai.com IT Event" to be held here in July, the new District Collector T. Udhayachandran said.

Talking to press, the Collector, who assumed charged today, said "Madurai.Com would be eye opener, and Madurai will find its due place in the IT Map of India. "Udhayachandran was earlier Director of ELCOT (Electronic Corporation of Tamil Nadu).

"First we need to setup an IT park, I have already taken action in this regard as the MD of ELCOT.The park would require 40 acres of Land. Even if the Major IT players, like Tata Consultancy Services wanted land in Madurai ,we could help them by acquiring land from the Private owners." The immediate plan was to set up an IT Park to enable IT companies put up their IT units. Ongoing infrastructure projects and drinking water schemes would be expedited.

In other hand, Union IT Minister Dayanidhi Maran said that efforts to develop IT corridors in tier-two cities like Coimbatore, Madurai, Tiruchrapalli and Tirunelveli were also taken and as part of it he had spoken to Union Minister for Civil Aviation, Praful Patel to develop the existing airports.

Minister said that he would be going to South Korea in the middle of June to hold talks with IT and other companies to ask them to start their business in India.

Minister said that as the new government in Tamilnadu was friendly with the Union government suitable ambience would be created to attract more and more investmens towards the State. 'Both the Central and State Governments are planing to increase employment opportunities through the IT sector and also planning to attract more IT companies into Tamilnadu,' he added.

Ashokism - Creative, Impressive work in Madurai

I recently happenned to talk to Mr.Daniel Ashok Babu

I suggest you take a look at his work - I was really impressed at his creativity and his architecture especially. He is basically an architect from Madurai, Tamil Nadu - currently in Afganisthan for an US project! If I build a designer house in Madurai, I will definitely contact Ashok only - his work is that impressive!

His Blog
His Architecture
His Poetry

100% Campus Interview placement

In Madurai - Melur - there is a polytechnic called Latha Madhavan Polytechnic College - In this year 100% of the students have been placed in jobs in campus. Isn't this a great news!?

Some companies who came here for recruitment are -
S.R.Steels, Mumbai
Texmo, Coimbatore
Silksin Export Unit, Chennai
Loyal Textiles, Kovilpatti
Tirupur Engineering Units
Rajarathinam Textiles, Singampunari

Don't you see this as a very good sign in Madurai!?

B.E., B.Tech., Admission Forms Online

B.E., B.Tech., Engineering College Admission Forms will be available in Anna University and Engineering colleges on 25th of May 2006.

+2 Exam Results Online

12th Standard Exam Results are getting released on May 22nd 9:30AM IST.

Please check out www.indiavarta.com for the 12th standard students examination results.

Banks and ATMs in Madurai

Banks and ATMs in Madurai



Tamilnadu Mercantile Bank
Naicker New Street,Simakkal,Madurai-1
Phone: 0452-234021

Madurai Dist Ctrl Co-Op Bank
35, Madakulam Main Road, Madurai-3
Phone: 0452-2600360

Karnataka Bank Ltd
32, Town Hall Road, Madurai-1
Phone: 0452-2340735

Karur Vysya Bank Ltd
Main Br: 74, Amman Sannathi, Madurai-1
Phone: 0452-2623183

Global Trust Bank
Ar Plaza,North Veli Street,Madurai-1
Phone: 0452-2348183

Canara Bank
Grand Central ,West Perumal Maistry Street,Madurai-1
Phone: 0452-2340641

Bank Of Madura Ltd
North Chitrai Street, Madurai-1
Phone: 0452-2680609

Indian Overseas Bank
21-N, Vadampokki Street, Madurai-1
Phone: 0452-2340415

Indian Bank
East Avani Moola Street, Madurai-1
Phone: 0452-2623233,623787

IDBI Bank
1/1, Vinayaga Nagar, Melur Road, K.K.Nagar, Madurai - 2
Phone: 0452-2527667, 527668

Corporation Bank
West Masi Street,(I Floor) Madurai-1
Phone: 0452-2346654,2347654

Central Bank Of India
Tallakulam, Madurai-2

Bank Of India
Main Branch, East Avani Moola Street, Madurai-1
Phone: 0452-2621547,2624098

Bank Of Baroda
Main Bazaar, 5 East Avani Moola Street, Madurai-1
Phone: 0452-2622938

Madurai ATM Locations

Oriental Bank Of Commerce

Main Branch (A.R.Plaza, North Veli Street)
Near K.K.Nagar Arch
Hotel Germanus Days Inn (Bye-Pass Road)
Town Hall Road (Opp. to College House)
Vellarippatti (TVS Srichakra Limited)
No.75, P.T.Rajan Road (Opp. to Central School)

HDFC Bank
Main Branch (Opp. to Railway Junction)
Opposite to Maappillai Vinayagar Theatre
Near Ambika Theatre

ICICI Bank
Munichalai Br. (214-C, Kamarajar Salai) Vilangudi Br. (Plot No.23, Meenakshi Nagar)
Kochadai Br. (No.196, Bye-Pass Road) South Masi Br. (No.137, South Masi Street)
Main Br. (33, North Chithrai Street) Subramaniapuram Br. (Opp. Madura College)
Tallakulam Br. (45, H.A.Khan Road, Tallakulam) [Br. -> Branch]
TPK Road (AR.A.S.PV. Show Room, TPK Road) K.K.Nagar (No.641, Melur Main Road)
Fenner (Thuvariman Road) Athikulam (JAS Towers, Narayanapuram)
Anna Nagar (Near Ambika Theatre) Thirunagar (Devi Kalaivani Theatre, G.S.T.Road)

IDBI Bank
Main Branch (Opp. to Court, Melur Road)
Mathura Textile Limited (New Jail Road)
Vasantha Nagar (Near Bus Stop)

UTI Bank
Main Branch (K.K.Nagar, Near Aavin)
Inside the Railway Junection
B.B.Kulam (#7/1, V.P.Rathinaswamy Nadar Road)
Pazhanganatham (HCPL petrol bunk)

Some more banks not mentioned - will get them very soooooon...
We convey our thanks to Madurai Directory website for providing this information to us.

Plan your finance early and reap the benefits!

Are you earning now and you are bachelor or just married or you have a kid who is in primary school? You don't know where to invest and what to do about finance or you want to plan your child's studies, your father's health expenses or your pension expenses? Or in short - You want to plan your finance and income - here is a tool for you from Prudential ICICI Mutual Fund!! BTW, every insurance company provides these kind of tools, but here is a tool for you to plan from ICICI!!



Planner Tool

All the best in planning your finances...

Madurai Used Cars - Buy and Sell

Madurai Used Cars to Buy and Sell!



Durai Cars Plot No.166, K.K.Nagar,Madurai - 625 020.Tel.: 2586192 Cell: 9842150588

Hajee Abbas Sons College House, Madurai - 625 001 Tel.: 2341583, 2347444Cell: 9842134744, 9443051118

Mano Cars No.297, Pavakkai Kandapam,Villapuram,Opp. to Jayavilas,Madurai - 625 012.Cell : 98430 51300,98421 31441

MSP Motors No.7, Thirumakkulam,Tallakulam, Madurai - 625 002Tel.: 2526957, 2527647Cell: 9842153866, 9842253866

National Cars No.40, K.K.Nagar,80 Feet Road,Madurai - 625 020.Tel.: 5392928, 3108787Cell: 9842193698, 9843020088

Pandyan Cars Bye-pass Road, Madurai - 625 016Tel: 2611117, 2661234Cell: 9842151172, 9443051172

Santhosh Cars K.K.Nagar First Street,Madurai - 625 020Tel.: 2584782Cell: 98421-51782, 94430-63246

Somu Cars No.43, H.A.Khan Road,Chinna Chockikulam,Madurai - 625002.Tel.: 2530246, 2523123, 2530412Cell: 98430-52246, 94430-52246

Sri Ram Consultants Near Dinamalar Office,DSP Nagar, Bye-Pass Road,Madurai - 625 016Tel.: 2385221Cell: 9842120833, 9842420833

Vikram Cars Plot No.40, K.K.Nagar,80 Feet Road,Madurai - 625 020.Tel.: 5392928, 5393938Cell: 98421-03440

Thanks to Madurai Directory WebSite for providing this information!!

Madurai R Sundar - A Carnatic Singer

1. Sarada Krishna Iyer memorial award for senior vocalists at Madras Music Academy in Dec 2000.
2. Best Sub-Senior vocalist award from the Indian Fine Arts Society, Chennai in December 1999.
3. NYAYAPATHI RANGAMANNAR AWARD, RAMASWAMY IYER SASHTIAPTAPURTHI AWARD & PANKAJAM RAJAM AWARD at Madras Music Academy in Dec 1998.
4. MUSIRI SUBRAMANYA IYER AWARD for niraval singing at Madras Music Academy in December 1996.
5. V.R.SAMBASIVA IYER MEMORIAL AWARD for concert at Madras Music Academy in December 1983.
6. Talent promotion concert prize at Sri Krishna Gana Sabha, Chennai in 1982.
NYAYAPATHI SRIRANGANAYAKAMMA AWARD for concert at Madras Music Academy in December 1981.
7. Prize in DIKSHIDAR BICENTENARY CELEBRATIONS, RAMESWARAM.

Wonderingwhat is all these??? These are awards of Madurai R Sundar.

Please read more..

National Cadet Corps - Madurai Group

National Cadet Corps - NCC - Madurai Group has a website!
Please take a look here

Madurai Silk Sarees and Dresses Shopping

The following are the shops specifically for Sarees and then the second list is general category and then the third list is for men's, for all kinds of shopping in Madurai. If we have missed any, please add!!

These are the shops you can see too much of crowd during Deepavali/Diwali, Pongal and other festivals. Especially for marriages, there is a huge amount of shopping by the families!

Sarees and Silks
Rajmahal Silks
Madurai Silks
Nalli Silks
Gandhi Silks
Bhagyalakshmi Silks
Designs
Selections
Archana
Kishkintha
Shobika
Cooptex
Tirupuvanam Pattu Coop society
Surya
Suganya

General Dresses - Men and Kids as well
Gurukshetra
Amarajothi
Gurukshetra
Chitrakoodam
Shantharam
Vardamaan's
Brahma
Sri Krishna
Shivakami

Men's
College Collections
Trends
Raymonds
Madurai Coats Seconds Sales Store
AK Ahmed & Co.,
Deluxe Dresses
Gani Dresses
Vopson's
Fashions
Milan
Roop Milan
Hajeemoosa
Nellai Dresses
Adam's

As on date, Gold's price has gone beyond limits! If you want to buy gold, this might not be the right time in Madurai.

These are some of the noticeable jewelleries from Madurai mentioned above.

Thanga Mayil jewelleries
MS tharam jewelleries
Dhanasree jewelleries
senthil murugan jewelleries
om muruga jewelleries

There are many more small small jewelleries, which are not mentioned.

Notable People from Madurai

Thanks to Wikipedia for this information. We are posting this information in this blog, just for social cause - not for any personal benefits.

Carnatic singer M S Subbulakshmi
"Madurai Gandhi" N M R Subbaraman
Mathematician Augustus De Morgan
Carnatic singer Madurai Mani Iyer
Carnatic singer Madurai Somu @ Somasundaram
Carnatic singer Madurai T. N. Seshagopalan
Carnatic singer T M Soundrajan
Bharatanatyam dancer Rukmini Devi Arundale
Writer Indira Soundarajan
Pattimandram Specialist Solomon Papaiah
Nagaswaram Vidwan MPN Ponnuswamy
Industrialist Auto T V Sundaram Iyengar
Biologist David Raja Premkumar
Poet Vairamuthu
Educationalist Peter Isaac

and much more, not mentioned here..

Alagendran Group of Companies

Another business conglomerate to be mentioned about, when Madurai's business is considered. Another jewel of Madurai Business!!

Here is a writeup from the company -

The Alagendran Group of Companies is a professionally managed conglomerate which has attained glorious height of the biggest dealers(retail and wholesale) of automobile spares in the South today. The group which initially tasted unimaginable success in the automobile sector, slowly and steadily embarked on diversification and today it has acquitted itself well in Manufacturing, Import & Export , Finance, Nidhi, Construction. The Alagendran Group,which has its offices and factories spread all over Tamil Nadu is having total staff stregth of over 1500 employees. The credit for this mammoth achievement should rightfully go to the Group's founder and promoter Sri.R.Alaghentren, whose farsightedness, leadership and entrepreneurial spirit have inspired his entire dedicated staff to keep the Group's banner flying high.
Its impressive accomplishments in these four decades is on the threshold of an exciting and major expansion plan in the new millennium. The Group will focus its sights ahead in the 21st century always exploring new frontiers of growth with renewed vigor and unflagging determination.

Total Customer Satisfaction is their logo caption.
They are into -
Alagendran Automobiles
Alagumalai Impex Private Ltd.,
Alagendran Tractor Agencies
Alagendra Textiles Ltd.,
Alagendran Auto Agencies Ltd.,
Alagendran Property Dev Ltd.,
Alagendran Finance Ltd.,
Alagendran Benefit Fund Ltd.,
Alagendran Auto Enterprises
etc.,

Know More...

TVSICS to setup a manufacturing facility in Madurai

TVS Interconnect Systems Ltd. (TVSICS) is planning to set up a facility in Madurai for manufacturing cellular base station antennas. The company has also inked a definite agreement with Argus Technologies of Australia for transfer of technology for these antennas.

Read More...

TVS Interconnected Systems Ltd`s (TVSICS), Madurai based manufacturing company for cellular base station antennas bagged an order from the Reliance group worth about Rs 2 billion. GREAT!!!

Madurai Kamaraj University Results - An Update

Madurai Kamaraj University Results for MSc/M.Sc., Zoology and Botany(April 2006 Exams) is in the internet websites - www.webulagam.com and www.mkuniversity.org.

If you want to apply for re-evaluation, please download the form from www.mkuniversity.org/forms.html. Fill it up and submit the amount in the office on or before 2/6/2006. After this date, the forms will not be accepted.

All the Best for your career from Madurai Times.

PTR Palanivelrajan - Heart Attack!:-(

Madurai Times team deeply condoles for Aranilaithurai State Minister from Madurai PTR Palanivelrajan's demise today morning, due to heart attack. When he was coming in Pandian Express towards Madurai, he had a heart attack near dindigul. While he was on the way to the hospital, he died.

News, Incidents, Happenning and Updates from Madurai!

Thanks for the photo - Wikipedia!

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Send us anything you have related to Madurai, Madurai and Madurai!!!!

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Speciality of Aravind Hospital - Dr. V's vision

Aravind Eye Hospitals are the expression of a vision quest, a response to the silent call of thousands who have lost their sight.

Under the leadership of Dr. G. Venkataswamy(popularly known as Dr.V), Aravind Eye Hospital was founded in Madurai in 1976 with the mission to eradicate needless blindness in Tamilnadu.

Now in its 25th year, Aravind's innovative eye care delivery system is recognised as a model for other developing countries. Much importance is given to ensure that all patients are accorded the same care and high quality service, regardless of their economic status. As a result of a unique fee system and effective management, Aravind is able to provide free eye care to two-thirds of its patients from the revenue generated from the other third of its paying patients.

TVS Group of Companies!

TVS Group of Companies - Madurai's one of the largest employment provider!!

TV Sundram Iyengar, 1877 - 1955, Founder TVS Group


The TVS Group is India's leading supplier of automotive components and one of the country's most respected business conglomerates. TV Sundram Iyengar and Sons Limited, established in 1911, is the parent and holding company of the TVS Group.

Originating as a transport company in 1911, it now comprises over 29 companies that operate in diverse fields like automotive component manufacturing, automotive dealerships and electronics.

Underlying the success of the group is an ethos of commitment to the values of Quality, Service and Reliability. Continuous innovation and close customer interaction have enabled the Group to consolidate its position at the leading edge of the automotive industry.

The largest automobile distribution company in India, TVS & Sons has an annual turnover exceeding US$ 450 million (over Rs. 16,000 million). With a workforce of over 5000, TV Sundram Iyengar and Sons Limited operates through the three following divisions:

TVS Sons
Sundram Motors
Madras Auto Service

They are into everything - including finance, motors, schools, tyres, rubbers, roadways, nuts and bolts...and what not!

One great thing is - they provide employment to so many people in Madurai and so many families are dependant on them and their growth.

Colleges in Madurai

We should have written this article in the first place, but this is late to write this article.

Here are the list of colleges in Madurai, hope it is informative enough -

Arts & Science College
Ambiga College of Arts and Science, Annanagar, Madurai-20.
Arulananthar College, Karumathur-626514
Ayira Vysiya College, Kallampatti, Madurai -625014.
CSI College for women,-Karpaga Nagar,K-Pudur,-Madurai-7
Devasagayam Annathayammal College for Women, Pasumalai, Madurai-4
E.M.G. Kone Yadava Colege for women, Tirupallai, Madurai - 625014
Fatima College, Mary Land, Madurai - 625018.
Govt. Arts College, Melur, Madurai.
Lady Doak College, Bibikulam, Madurai-2
Madura College, TPK Road, Madurai-11.
Madurai Kamaraj University College, Alagarkoil Road, Madurai - 2.
Madurai Kamaraj University Evening College, Alagarkoil road.Madurai-2
Madurai Sivakasi Nadar Pioneer Meenakshi College for women, Poovanthi-630611, Madurai.
Mangayarkarasi College of Arts & Science for Women, Paravi, Madurai-2
Mannar Thirumalai Nayakar College, Pasumalai, Madurai - 625004.
M.S.S.Wakf Board College, K.K.Nagar, Madurai-20.
Madurai Institute of Social Sciences. Alagarkoil road, Madurai-2.
N.M.S.S.V.N.College, Nagamalai Pudukkottai, Madurai- 625019.
N.M.G.Sermathai Vasan College for Women, Semanatham, Madurai - 9.
P.K.N. Arts and Science College, Post Box No.-28, P.K.N. Nagar, Vidathakulam Road, Tirumangalam - 625 706
Pasumpon Muthuramalinga Thevar College, Usilampatti.
Saraswathi Narayan College.Avaniapuram, Perungudi, Madurai - 625 022
Senthamil College, Simmakal, Madurai-1.
Sourashtra College, Pasumalai, Madurai-4.
Sourashtra College for women, Vilachery Main Road, Madurai-4
Sri Meenakshi Government College for Women, Madurai.
Subbulakshmi Lakshmipathy College of Science,TVR Nagar,Madurai - 625 022
S.P. College of Science & Arts, Oddaipati, Karupiyaurani, Madurai-20
The American College, Goripalayam, Madurai-2.
Thiagarajar College, 139-140, Kamarajar Salai, Madurai 625 009
Yadava (Mens) College, Tirupalai , Madurai- 14.
Vivekananda College, Thiruvedagam, Madurai-625217.
Sri Nagalakshmi Ammal College of Science-2, Raman Koil Street,- T.Kallupatti
Sri Naga Lakshmi Ammal College of Sciences, Pappu nayakkan patty, Peraiyur - 625 708

Management Schools

Thiagarajar School of Management, Madurai-5.
Sourashtra College.Pasumalai, Madurai - 4
The American College., Madurai-2

Music College
Tamilnadu Music Training College,-Vilachery Road,--Madurai-14
Sri Sathguru Sangeetha Vidyalayam (College of Music)
154-Gokhale Road, Tallakulam, Madurai - 625 002

Perceptors College
Thiagarajar College of Perceptors, Madurai
St. Justin Teachers College for Women,-161, Kamarajar salai,--Madurai-9
Suresh Bernat Thangaraj Teachers Traininig College, Madurai-7.

Law College
Madurai Law College, Madurai-2.

Engineering Colleges in Madurai District
Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Thiruparakundram, Madurai.
Kamaraj College of Engg & Technology,-K.Vellakulam,-Kalligudi, Madurai
SACS M.A.V.M.M. College of Engineering, Kidaripatti,Alagarkoil, Madurai.- 625301.
PTR college of Engineering & Technology, Kappalur.
Raja College of Engineering,& Technology, SV Raja Nagar, Veerapanjan, Madurai-20
Sethu Institute of Engineering & Technology, Puloor Village, Kariapatty-626106.
KLN College of Engineering,-11th KM Nedunkulam Roa,-Pottapalayam, Madurai.

Medical & Paramedical Institutes in Madurai District

Medical Colleges
Madurai Medical College, Madurai-20
Govt. Homoeopathy Medical College, Tirumangalam, Madurai.
Lions Aravind Institute of Community Ophthalmology-1, Anna Nagar,--Madurai-20

Paramedical Institutes
Aravind Eye Hospital, Madurai.
Bose School of Nursing, 46, CMR ROad, Madurai-9.
C.S.I. Jayaraj Annapackiam College of Nursing, East Gate, Madurai- 625001
College of Allied Medical Sciences, 3, Jagjiwan Ram Street, Shenoy Nagar, Madurai- 625020
Good Health Educational Trust, A-3, Thiruvalluvar Street, Tirunagar, Madurai-6
Grace Kennett Foundation Hospital, 34, Kennett Road, Madurai-16.
K M College of Pharmacy, Uthangudi, Melur Road, Madurai- 625107
Pandian College of Pharmacy,-29-A, Theni road,--Madurai-7
Sacred Heart Nursing College, 4/ 235, College Road, Thasildhar Nagar, Madurai- 625020
Trinity Mission & Medical Foundation, Madurai.
Ultra College of Pharmacy,-4/235, College Road,-Thashildar Nagar,-Madurai-20-


Polytechnics & ITI in Madurai District

Polytechnics
Govt Polytechnic for Women, Madurai-11
KL Nagaswamy Memorial Polytechnic college,-Kozhimedu, Viraganoor Post,--Madurai-09
Latha Mathavan Polytechnic,Kidaripatti ,Alagarkoil [PO}-Madurai-625301
MAVMM Polytechnic,-Nayakanpatti,Alagarkoil [PO}-Madurai-625301
Rukumuni Shanmugam Polytechnic,Silaiman
Tamilnadu Polytechnic, Madurai-11.
Thanapandian Polytechnic, Kappalur.

ITI
Govt ITI, Madurai 7
UYPA,-B55, Duraisamy Street,-Thirunagar
Donbosco ITI, Jawhar Puram, Madurai-7
Sri Venkateswara ITI, Madurai
Srinivasa ITI, Madurai

TN Chapter of CII will stress on IT park in Madurai

The Tamil Nadu Chapter of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) said that it would stress on establishing IT parks in Madurai, Trichy and Coimbatore in the coming financial year.

They pointed out that the recent survey on Skill Mapping in Tamil Nadu State showed a gap between 'what the industries want' and what is 'available out there in quality and quantity - CII would promote skill development initiatives.

Looks like CII is going to work with ITIs and engineering colleges to fill this gap.

Madurai Apparel Park Project

At a discussion on the proposed park, organised by the Madurai Textile Exporters' Association (MTEA), here, the Commissioner, Handloom Textiles, Ms Leena Nair, the District Collector, Mr S. Ramachandran, the president of the Tamil Nadu Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Mr S. Rethinavelu, and the secretary of MTEA, Mr K.P.S. Selvaraj, participated.

A private company is planning on an apparel park in Madurai - of which expenses will be shared by the Union and State governments.

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Muthamil - A Different Website!!

Check out this site Muthamil.
I found this website different because of his(A Gentleman called Balachandran) opinions - sometimes it is amateurish and sometimes valid.

His articles are with pictures and it matches too.

One interesting thing is - I was not able to guess Mr.Balachandran's age - after his writings also!?

Another thing I noted about this person is he is Pro-Jayalalitha - Pro-ADMK!

Madurai Poetry Man - Kavignar Era Ravi

After publishing books containing a collection of his poetry, R. Ravi, a Tourism Department official working at the Mannar Tirumalai Naicker Palace in Madurai, launched a website www.kavimalar.com a couple of years ago.

Encouraged by more than 50,000 hits and response from all over the world, Mr. Ravi has decided to update the website on a daily basis by making it an interactive one.

At the second World Tamil Poetry competition organised by the London-based Sudaroli Publishers, Mr. Ravi won a prize.

Apart from poetry, another hobby of is to collect news articles on the President, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, published in small Tamil magazines. During a visit to Tiruchi, Mr. Ravi met the President who thanked him for sending the news clippings regularly.

Famous GV films acquires Thangam theatre in Madurai

Entertainment Industry News from Madurai:

GV Films has signed an Memorandum of Understanding with the prospective sellers for acquiring Thangam Theatre at Madurai for its proposed Multiplex and other Hospitality industry projects at Madurai. By entering into a Memorandum of Understanding to acquire Thangam Theatre at Madurai, GV Films is setting its foothold in the Southern Tamil Nadu. This is the first theatre acquisition by GV Films.

Job market is looking really hot in southern districts of Tamil Nadu

The outsourcing game is really missing something these days in Metros. The cost of living and business has become expensive these days in the metros like Chennai, Hyderabad, Bangalore etc., for all the software businesses - which work on onsite and offshore model.

This model is nothing but have very few consultants onsite for coordination and get all of the work done by the offshore team in India. That seem to become expensive in Metros too.

So now, industry experts feel that - now industrialist and entrepreuners are looking for investing in Tier II and Tier III cities like Madurai, Coimbatore etc., which is wonderful!

There are so many good colleges in the southern districts of Tamil Nadu and it can definitely serve the man power needs very clearly.

In the next three years time - we are looking for good amount of placements(including campus placements) in Madurai, new industries - especially software businesses. If you are a software engineer - you can find a job in Madurai very shortly.

Many manufacturing and service industry companies are looking upto IT businesses to help in their businesses - for higher productivity and in more revenue generation.

Also about the retention of the employees - it is more about keeping them busy with challenging work - It is the only way you can keep them with your company, and prevent them from moving to the metros. We cannot get deposit or have them sign in contracts etc.,

Anyway, Going great for Tier II and Tier III cities like Madurai.

Made In Madurai Team is very happy about this.

High Hopes for Madurai in the new rule

The Tamil Nadu Chamber of Commerce and Industry - President S Rethinavelu said in a press release - He hopes that the state and the central governments would work together in implementing various projects, including Nanguneri Special Economic Zone - Madurai IT Park and transformation of Madurai airport into an international airport and a four-way project.

Great to hear and we hope that these thing happen and our Madurai becomes prosperous, during this period!

Madurai based Ministers and MLAs

TIRUPPARANKUNDRAM Bose A.K AIADMK
MADURAI WEST Shanmugam.S.V AIADMK
MADURAI CENTRAL P.T.R.Panalivel Rajan DMK
MADURAI EAST Nanmaran CPIM
SAMAYANALLUR (SC) Tamilarasi R DMK
MELUR Samy R -UNKNOWN-
NATHAM Viswanathan R AIADMK
DINDIGUL Balabharathi.K CPIM
PERIYAKULAM O PaneerShelvam AIADMK
THENI Ganeshan RD AIADMK
BODINAYAKKANUR Lakshmanan S DMK
CUMBUM Eramakrishnan N MDMK
ANDIPATTI J.Jayalalitha AIADMK
SEDAPATTI Durairaj C AIADMK
THIRUMANGALAM Ilavarasan Veera MDMK
USILAMPATTI Mahendran.I AIADMK
NILAKOTTAI (SC) Thenmozhi S AIADMK
SHOLAVANDAN Moorthy P DMK

Kal Alagar's visit at Vaigai River Bank - Madurai Chithrai Festival Coverage

After the holy marriage of Madurai Meenakshi Amman, few days back, her brother tries to come to the marriage. The Alagar/Lord Vishnu/Krishna is taken from Alagarkoil to Madurai slowly and by making couple of stops on the way. The real festival is when he reaches the vaigai river bank and there was lot of enthusiasm. This had brought people from all over southern part of tamil nadu. Madurai was so colorful and full of festive mood.

It is considered that when reaching the vaigai river bank, he hears that marriage is over, so he gets angry and returns back from the vaigai river bank to Alagarkovil.

Unpopular NewsTodayNet Newspaper

If you don't know about this evening newspaper based in Chennai, please know about it. They produce informative, neutral, valid, good and decent news, though the quality of the online edition is not very good.

Looks like the editor is T.R.R, but not Actor cum politician T.Rajendran, I guess. Please correct me, if I am wrong. One more information is they are online from 1997, looks like!

These kind of neutral and unpopular newspapers has to become popular among the people, for the best interests of the democracy.

I wish, I could help them in getting the quality of the website to a decent situation! If you are running a web design company, please provide some help to them.

You can access the website or online edition here...

New Rubber Industry in Madurai

Lanxess India, the maker of rubber additives and styrenic resins, is setting up a 2,000 tonne rubber additives production facility in Madurai.

The production will commence by the end of ‘06 and will meet demands of automotive and engineering industries.

Read More in Economic Times...

Tamil Nadu Elections 2006 - Legislative Assembly Election Results

Tamil Nadu is all set to have its first coalition government, with the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam-led Democratic Progressive Alliance gaining an absolute majority in the 234-member Tamil Nadu Assembly, winning 172 seats.

The DMK, leading in 103 seats, is the single largest party. Its ally, the Congress was leading in 35 seats, PMK in 17, CPI in 8, Muslim League in 0 seats and the CPM in 9 seats.

ADMK won only 53 seats and DMDK Vijayakanth won only 1 seat.
Forward Bloc Karthik lost all the seats!

DMK President M Karunanidhi is likely to take oath as chief minister of the new government on May 13.

Check out the list of results in DINAKARAN

Knowledge is power - A nice inspirational story

WHERE TO TAP

Ever heard the story of the giant ship engine that failed? The ship's owners tried one expert after another, but none of them could figure but how to fix the engine. Then they brought in an old man who had been fixing ships since he was a youngster. He carried a large bag of tools with him, and when he arrived, he immediately went to work. He inspected the engine very carefully, top to bottom.

Two of the ship's owners were there, watching this man, hoping he would know what to do. After looking things over, the old man reached into his bag and pulled out a small hammer. He gently tapped something. Instantly, the engine lurched into life. He carefully put his hammer away. The engine was fixed! A week later, the owners received a bill from the old man for ten thousand dollars.

"What?!" the owners exclaimed. "He hardly did anything!"

So they wrote the old man a note saying, "Please send us an itemized bill."

The man sent a bill that read:

Tapping with a hammer ........................ $ 2.00
Knowing where to tap ............................ $ 9998.00

Effort is important, but knowing where to make an effort in your life makes all the difference.

Received this as a forward from my BiL.

Tamil Nadu Election Update - Percentage of Polling in Madurai

In Tamil Nadu, a polling percentage of 70.22% is recorded, even though on a previous day, there was only 64% approximately. This 70.22% is 11% more than what was recorded last time elections.

Around 18 constituencies will be having re-poll tomorrow, due to technical difficulties on the first day.

Coming to Madurai Polling/Vote/Elections:
A total of 70.4 percent polling was recorded in the district. Poll percentage in all the 10 constituencies of Madurai district was higher than what was recorded in last Assembly elections. The highest in the district was recorded in Melur constituency - 72.4 percent voters.

Highlights of Marriage of Gods

Devotees in and around Madurai and many international tourist visitors were in Madurai for attending the celestial marriage/wedding in the world famous Sri Meenakshi Sundareswarar Temple, which was one of the nominees for the World wonders.

1. The roads around Madurai Meenakshi Amman Temple were filled with people/devotees for seeing the marriage.
2. Goddess Meenakshi and Lord Sundareswarar were strolled to Adiveethi where the marriage ceremony happenned.
3. 50,000 people shared the big feast provided by the temple management.
4. Since it was hot, people got free hand fans from the donators and also some got it paid.
5. Lot of donators gave butter milk, water and panakkaram(sugar water).
6. Winways systems provides it live in internet as well. Please check out the article in Madurai Times.
7. Overall, it was a great festival.

Chithra Festival Live from Madurai

This is a very famous festival in Madurai - Could be called Chithirai, Chithra, Chitra festival - which includes marriage of gods - in other words Madurai Meenakshi Thirukkalyanam.

Now it comes live and it is sponsored by Winways Systems Private Limited.,



The celestial wedding of the Goddess and the Lord which will be solemnized between the auspicious hours of 8.26 am and 8.50 am on Tuesday at the special wedding hall of the temple, which had been colourfully decorated with a variety of blossoms.

This is a unique ritual which is attended by thousands of devotees from all over the State of Tamil Nadu. The temple authorities have made special arrangements to enable the devotees of the deities the world over, to watch the proceedings alive through internet. The facility is being sponsored by Winways Systems Private Ltd., Madurai. Devotees world over, could watch this colourful climax of the festival by logging on to www.maduraimeenakshi.org from 7.30am IST.

Read More in Madurai Meenakshi dot ORG

Updated ----08th April 2008
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Helping Akshaya Rehabilitation Trust Madurai through New Madurai Foundation

Thanks to The Hindu - A Newspaper publication and Ms.Krishnan(Hindu Article author) for photo and part of the article taken and pasted in Madurai Times for a good cause. Thank You...******

THREE YEARS ago a young man on vacation was cycling through the streets of Madurai when he came across a person sitting under a bridge eating his own waste. The stark desperation of the sight shook him profoundly and drastically altered the course of his life.

Today, 23-year-old Krishnan cooks and distributes food to at least a hundred people on the streets of Madurai. Each day he starts at 5.30 a.m. and ends at 10.30 p.m. offering breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Service his style leaves little space for anything else. He doesn't read the newspapers or watch television. He doesn't go out with friends or take vacations. But he can cut a kilo of onions in four minutes flat and make 100 different varieties of pickle. His fragrant, homemade `garam masala' has 30 separate ingredients in it. He regrets nothing.

A week after the encounter under the bridge, Krishnan, known to family and friends as Kishore, resigned from a high-salaried position with a leading luxury hotel in Bangalore. A position he had spent years training for and dreaming of.

"I felt I had unfinished work in Madurai," he says simply.

He returned home and told his anxious family that he intended to feed people on the street, who couldn't feed themselves. He began that very same day, starting with the man under the bridge.

We decided to help Akshaya Krishnan, as part of our efforts on helping downtrodden and under-privileged Madurai to build a New Madurai.

Read the above Article here

We have been helping with Rs.2500 for Akshaya, but we could not give anything for the past 2 months. Please help us for helping Akshaya by - Donating.... After donating, please send a mail to newmadurai@gmail.com, for our reference and records.

Here is a photo of our New Madurai Foundation members handing over the cheque to Akshaya Krishnan.




Thank You

Minutes of the First Free Library Launch in South Madurai

First Free Library was launched in South Madurai on January 2006. Here is the Highlights of the Free Library Launch ----

Mani Maran, Angu Ashok Kumar, Murali Kandan, Surya Selvan and Tamil Selvan were the ones worked hard for the "New Madurai Foundation" legal registration and free library launch.

"New Madurai Foundation" By-Law was completed before 25th of December '05.
By-Law was submitted for review and registration by 29th of December '05.

It was reviewed by Lawyer and it was approved by concerned people.
We - Tamil Selvan, Mani Maran, Surya and Ashok went to the registration office and we registered with the appropriate registration fees less than Rs.1000.

That completes the registration minutes.

For Library - everything was set.

Books were purchased using our personal money from the second hand shops and also books were collected from close relatives. Some of the notable people donated their books are - Tamil Selvan, Ramya Maran, Mani Maran, Surya Selvan, Dr.Santhana Kannan, Ramdoss, Mrs.Kamalam Shankar etc., All the books were of so much money which were purchased from the beginning of our career individually.
Book Racks which are made of steel were purchased from the furniture shops and sandhai. It was around Rs.3250.
Sweets, Karam and Coffee was prepared and bought from outside using our personal money. Bills are all filed up with the Financial Trustee - Mani Maran.
Decoration items and wall posters were purchased from decoration shops and ideal home exhibition in Madurai.
Reading Table was ordered from a furniture production shop. It costs around Rs.2000.
Stools were purchased from furniture shop. Bills are available with Mani Maran.
Water can is provided by Mani Maran temporariliy.
Space for library is provided by Tamil Selvan temporarily.
Ashok has given all his time and efforts and helped Mani Maran to make this project successful.
Overall it is a great team effort and we are very much glad that we did it.
We hope the list of book donors will grow.
We invited couple of teachers, relatives, new madurai volunteers and friends. Only Siva Bond, Ashok, Mani, Surya Selvan and Tamil Selvan came for the function, from New Madurai Foundation volunteer list.

TVS Lakshmi Mat. Hr. Sec. School Principal Mr. Sudhakar was invited for the function to preside as Chief Guest. He cut the ribbon and inaugurated the library.

Guests and audience were sitting in the chairs. Tamil Selvan and Sudhakar sat in front of the audience. Rest of the Trustees were standing in the side.

Tamil Selvan gave a brief about New Madurai Foundation. Chief Guest spoke about the good deed we were starting to work on. Surya Selvan, a trustee presented the memento to the chief guest. Akshaya Krishnan was given a chance to tell about his work. Mani Maran, financial trustee gave the cheque to Krishnan, for december month.

There was a question session and there was snacks and coffee section.

Only thing requested from the reader is - Either Donate the resources for the library AND/OR spread the news to all of your friends and relatives.

- New Madurai Foundation.

Employment is the key issue in Madurai and Tamil Nadu

“Employment is the single largest issue in all areas in and around Madurai,” P Mohan, a Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) MP, said while campaigning in Madurai district.

“Because of the poverty of the region, no one wants to start any new industry here. There were four textile mills which once provided 18,000 jobs, now only 1,500 are employed in these mills. In Madurai, once there were 50,000 handloom workers, now there are only about 3,000. Rural unemployment is the single largest problem today. The All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) at a stroke of the pen sacked 10,000 road construction workers, attempted to retrench 200,000 government staff following a general strike,” said.

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New initiative of MADITSSIA

I2 is an initiative by MADITSSIA, which aims to provide a platform for Industry –Institute interactions. I2 welcomes Engineering Institutions and Industrial units to become members of this venture and enjoy the pack of high value benefits.

Knowledge is not power. Its potential power. Knowledge becomes real power only when applied in the right conditions. Good relationships create positive and conducive conditions for productive developments to take place. Such synergic relationships make this world a better place for living.

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Latest MADITSSIA news

Visvesvaraya Award: Trade body calls for nominations

Madurai District Tiny and Small Scale Industries Association has called for nominations to its annual Visvesvaraya Award for the best small-scale industry in the southern districts of Tamil Nadu. The award is presented in association with All-India Manufacturers' Organisation.

According to a press release, any small or tiny industry functioning in Madurai, Dindigul, Virudhunagar, Sivaganga, Ramanathapuram, Tuticorin, Tirunelveli, Kanyakumari and Theni districts are eligible for the award.

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Courtesy: World Trade Review...

Ship sank near Madurai

The ship named "TUG VI" which had 18 environmental studies scientists who were studying about the Sethusamudram canal project sank near Madurai.

Southern Districts in Tamil Nadu need new development plan

Tamil Nadu election 2006 is full of promises. But none of them seem to be aimed at resolving the fundamental problems of the state, especially those of the southern districts, including Madurai.

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Job Recruitment in Customer Satisfied Technologies

Dear Reader,
We represent - Customer Satisfied Technologies, a registered company in India.
We have one of our partner located in USA and another partner located in Australia. We have a sales office in Australia.

We are in the process of building Customer Related products, for helping small and medium businesses work with their customers smoothly.

We have almost completed our first product - SurveyMAC - a Hosted Survey Management System and it is in User Acceptance Phase.

We have many product ideas and new projects lined up. In total, we are a product and also a productized solution company.

Currently we are looking for students who are in final year or who have just passed out and looking for jobs in Madurai. If you are experienced that is well and good. If you are none of the above, please refer this article to your friend - please see the recruitment details below...

* Final Year Students or Freshers who have just finished their B.E., or B.Sc., Comp.Sci or MSc Comp Sci or MCA. - except for business development manager.
* Must be very much interested in programming.
* Preferred Working location is Madurai. But if you are located away, that is fine - we are open for working from home too, provided results are there.
* Good Written and Oral Communication Skills
* Right Attitude and High Aims in life.
* Proactive and Smart worker
* You can be good in one of the following -

Hire 1: Good in Java, J2EE and XML related technologies. - Enterprise Application Development Technologies.

Hire 2: Good in Web Design related technologies - PHP, MySQL, Apache, Linux/Windows - WAMP or LAMP.

Hire 3: Creative in Web Design - Graphics Creation : CorelDraw / Adobe Illustrator etc. Image Editing, Special Effects : Adobe PhotoShop / MacroMedia Fireworks
Animation & Multimedia : MacroMedia Flash / Director / Adobe Premier
HTML Authoring, DHTML & CSS : DreamWeaver

Hire 4: Business Development Manager in Domestic market - India. - Must be an MBA for this position.

Please send in your mail to sselvan@gmail.com or vipin.vijayakumar@gmail.com, and have the subject as - Resume for Hire 1 etc., as applicable.

Thank You.

Please see more about us in Customer Satisfied Technologies.

Madurai Machan Going Great!

Recently Started Entertainment Portal MaduraiMachan.com is progressing very well.
There is a separate team working on it from different places of the world.

The team is basically from Madurai, Trichy and Chennai. They are now staying in United States, United Kingdom, India.

This article is to inform everyone that they have reached 100 posts yesterday and they are having a huge traffic already, though it was launched recently.

Check out Madurai Machan dot com.

Bharat Darshan starts from Madurai

The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) along with the Travel Times (India) is to organise 'Bharat Darshan' on wheels on a sustained basis.

The first 'Bharat Darshan' tourist train will be flagged off from Madurai 12 May with pick-up points at Dindigul, Tiruchi, Chennai, Nellore, Vijayawada and Nagpur. It will cover Agra, Amritsar, Chandigarh, Hardwar, Varanasi, Gaya, and Allahabad.

The corporation had also planned similar tourist trains from Madurai on 11 June, 15 July, 5 August and 18 September and from Bangalore on 29 June.

Pragmatism from Bhagavad Gita

1. Why do you uselessly worry? Of whom are you needlessly afraid? Who can kill you? The Atma is neither born nor does it die.

2. Whatever happened in the past is for your good. Whatever is happening now is also good and whatever happens in the future is, that too, will be good. Do not have regrets about the past. Do not worry about the future. The presence is flowing effortlessly.

3. What have you lost that makes you weep? What did you bring into this life that you have lost? What did you nurture that has been destroyed. You brought nothing into this life and nothing you take while you are here can you take with you when you depart. Whatever you took or gave, you did so only here and only from Bhagavan. You came into the world empty-handed, and will leave empty-handed. What is yours today was another persons yesterday and the day after tomorrow is will belong to someone else. You think all this is yours because you are identified with this existence. Alas, is it this materialistic attachment that is the cause of your unhappiness.

4. Change is the law of the Universe. What you think of as death is actually real life. In a moment you become rich. The next moment you are poor. Yours and mine, small and large, ours and theirs: banish these petty thoughts from your mind! Here everything is yours and you belong to everyone else.

5. Neither is the body yours, nor do you belong to this body. This body is made of the five elements: earth, air, water, fire and space, and someday is will return from whence it came. But the atma is firm and immoral. What then are you?

6. Surrender yourself to the Lord. He will be your greatest help and comfort. The person who knows this is unafraid, does not worry and is free from sorrow.

7. Whatever you do, surrender it at the feet of the Lord. When you do this you will know the bliss of one who is free from the cycle of births and deaths.

Literate Madurai Project

I believe one person is considered as literate, if he/she is able to read/write Tamil. In addition to this if he/she is able to read/write English too, that is great. We will work towards only the first point. Madurai current literacy rate is 79%. While moving towards perfection, we will have to make it 100% literacy. More awareness we have, more we can achieve. As it is universally known, Knowledge is Power. Whenever we think of improving a city, I think first thing we should do is increase the literacy rate. As a next step, increase the number of successful entrepreneurs. That apart, in order to work out 100% literacy rate, we will have to identify, whom we will have to target. The target segments of people for beneficiary are children, youth, men women, senior citizens.

I personally know one of my relatives, who have sent two sons to work, terminating their school studies, while they were performing well in studies.

I would start thinking from why would a parent not send a child to school or why a child would not be interested in coming to school.

1) Ignorance - Many parents are not aware of the importance of education for children and a reading habit of a child.

2) Less Motivation - Due to the ignorance, they feel “what is the use of the education?!”. Parents and children are less motivated about education.

3) Poverty - Since there is not much to feed all of the family members, it is a compulsion to create more earning hands to feed all the mouths. So children are sent to work.

There might be much more, but let us restrict with these points for our focus.
In addition to the children and youth, we will have to educate the adults too, for more awareness, so that we can move forward together.

Educating Women is the most important part in this project. For every society, every woman’s education is very important. If we educate a woman, we educate a family.

Evening Vadai

If you go to a tea shop in tamil nadu, you can find red, green, pink plastic plate, in which a banana leaf strip will be placed. A bajji or vadai will be placed and coconut chutney will be served!

Just remembered the vadai, bajji and chutney, so shared the thought.

Tamil Media is polarized a lot!

Till now, only televisions in tamil nadu were polarized. But now, even newspapers are polarized. There is no popular media, which is non-polarized.

Considering the fact that we are a democratic country, public considers that the media is a very important tool to make some important decisions like voting etc.,

Sun TV has a huge list of media power, which was stated in one of our earlier tamil nadu political news article.

Jaya TV is also associated with a political party.

Now, a low profit earning Tamil Newspaper is taken over by SUN Network and gets it to people for just a rupee! This has made destruction to the future of the other tamil newspapers - dina thanthi(daily thanthi), dinamalar etc.,
If you notice, these newspapers are towards AIADMK these days and against DMK.

Actress Shilpa Shetty and Reema Sen's reaction

Actor Shilpa Shetty reacts to the non-bailable arrest warrant issued against her by a Madurai court.

A local court in Madurai on Friday issued non-bailable warrants against actresses Shilpa Shetty and Reema Sen for 'posing in an obscene manner' in photographs published in a Tamil eveninger.

"I think there are more important and crucial issues that need to be tackled. Such issues certainly don't deserve headlines. And frankly, I haven't received any summons from the court. Even if something like this happens, I have full faith in our judiciary,"she says.

"It's a democratic country. What I do is my concern as long as I know where to draw the line and not offend anybody,"she says and adds as an afterthought, "As far as my photographs go, what is obscene about it? If navel-showing is obscenity, then our traditional Indian outfit - the traditional sari -too should be banned."

So, how does Shilpa define obscenity? "It is the way one perceives it. Sometimes, shooting in the rain can look obscene if it is not shot aesthetically. Or a short skirt can look sexy, if it's shot in a tasteful way. It depends on certain camera angles,"she explains.

Well, what do you think? It is a mistake by the eveninger, but why does the police/court behind this actress!!?? Not sure...

Latest News straight from Madurai

Election Observers withdrawn:

Three election observers have been withdrawn from three constituencies in Madurai district following complaints against them by political parties.

The three observers are Rupram Jowal (Samayanallur), Ameet Jha (Tiruparankunram) and Aswini Kumar (Madurai east) would not be given any election related work in Tamil Nadu or anywhere else.

The Returning of a missing dalit candidate:

The Dalit Makkal Peravai president, P Muthukrishnan, contesting as an independent candidate from the Samayanalur constituency, returned home today after he went missing on April 28. It is claimed that he was kidnapped by the ruling party folks and kept near bangalore.

Voters are confused:

It is found that voters are confused about whom to vote now, considering so many materialistic promises from all the political parties. If one claims to provide 1 KG rice for 2 Rs., another claims to provide 10KGs for free and another for 15 Kgs for free. One gives Color TV, another gives Free mobile phone. One gives unemployement benefits. One gives gold for a poor daughter's marriage. etc., etc.,

Nobody had claimed that they would give employment opportunities, proper education. Well, if we see from a marketing perspective, the market and prospects they are aiming for is just poor people from 54% voting percentage of people.

Only God has to Tamil Nadu!!