Thread: Tamil Nadu govt issues new guidelines to tackle the spread of Covid.
- Night curfew announced from 10pm to 4 am across the state from April 20.
Public/ private transport not allowed to ply and inter-state/ district transport also suspended during this time period.
- Only essential services allowed to operate during night curfew. Media, petrol pumps, continuous process industries exempted. Transport for emergency medical need, airport, railway station alone will be allowed.
- Total lockdown on Sundays. Only essential services allowed.
- Parcel facility allowed from hotels from 6am- 10am, 12pm- 3pm and 6pm-9pm on Sundays.
-Tamil Nadu class 12 state board examinations postponed. Practical exams to go on as scheduled.
- 100 people allowed for weddings and 50 for funerals.
Thread: Tamil Nadu Deputy Chief Minister OPS, who also handles the finance portfolio, starts presenting the interim state budget for 2021-22 at Kalaivanar Arangam, Chennai.
-TN govt has incurred a total expenditure of Rs13,352.85 crores for handling Covid19 pandemic.
-Out of the 413 recommendations given by economic expert committee, govt has implemented 273 of them.
- TN is expected to register a positive growth of 2.02% at 2011-12 constant prices in 2020-2021. This is against an all India negative growth of 7.7 percent.