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21 Nov, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Over 17000 trees to be cut including plantations,26 water bodies to be affected for this new Expressway. Some of the 106 km in TN passes thru cultivable land. Environmentalists in TN are missing. Media is in mute mode. This Expressway is most essential and will greatly help
economic development but so would have the Chennai Salem expressway. The sheer political opportunism masked as environmental concern needs to be called out. Every development project has some impact on the environment. Our aim should be to strike a balance between the two
and take measures to minimize the impact. That was not the case in Tamil Nadu earlier. It was always all or none. No question of taking environmental safeguards and going ahead. Only scrapping projects was the demand. Neutrino, Hydrocarbon, Sterlite, Chennai Salem expressway
Ennore Port expansion, etc..were all stymied ostensibly in the name of protecting the environment.Hopefully the present State Govt will reward those environmental activists for their past "services" and will move on with Developement activities in the best interests of the State
For those saying there are already 2 roads to Salem,there are already 2 roads to Bangalore too.For those saying forest land was affected there it is here too.Way forward wd hv been to realign road to minimize environmental impact and go ahead. Hopefully @mkstalin will reconsider

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ஆனால் பெரும்பாலும் ஹிந்து மக்கள் வாழும் மாநிலத்தின் முதல்வர் வாழ்த்து தெரிவிக்கவில்லை. அநேகமாக வாழ்த்து தெரிவிக்காத ஒரே முதல்வர் @mkstalin தான். என் எதிர்பார்ப்பு இந்த முறை எல்லோரையும் அரவணைக்கும் ஒரு ஆட்சி திமுக வழங்கும் என்று. அவ்வாறு இல்லை என்பது வருத்தம் அளிக்கிறது.
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Then I wd do something else & return to look at the draft at the end of the day or next day when I had cooled down. 99% of those drafts never got sent. I wd not delete those mails from Drafts folder. Every few weeks I look at them and wonder how stupid I wd hv been to send them
So many friendships, business deals, career opportunities etc. can go up in smoke in an instant of anger. It just isn't worth it .For messages, I wd send a "will revert" reply and follow the same technique. Haven't perfected this fully but now I follow this 99% of the time.
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Thread on Justice A.K.Rajan Committee report.
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1.Selective usage of Data.
2. Makes several unverifiable assumptions
3.Non exclusion of outlier data
4.Drawing inferences/conclusions without evidence
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1. Data on students from Govt schools who got MBBS seats pre and post #NEET is selectively put out.(Everything else is from 2010-2020. This alone is from 2014) . Why?
2. How did Committee decide that 99% of students who qualified through NEET took coaching?
3.Only students from rural areas will go and serve in rural areas.Those from urban areas will not is an assumption here. Evidence for this?
4.2017 the 1st year of NEET is an outlier. All the data that year was way off from subsequent years.Was this data normalized?
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In no other part of India would you find people referring to themselves as non brahmins. They would always see themselves as being part of their community or social group. In Periyar's days it made sense. Brahmins dominated disproportionately and oppressed other communities
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