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Assembly thanks UPA Government

Special Correspondent

CHENNAI: The State Assembly on Thursday adopted a resolution unanimously thanking the Union Cabinet, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Union Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh for clearing the proposal to set up a Central Institute of Classical Tamil in Chennai. The Union Cabinet gave its nod for the proposal on Wednesday and Rs.76.32 crores has been allocated.

The Assembly resolution, read out by Leader of the House K. Anbazhagan, also praised the efforts of Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi in getting classical status for the Tamil language and also his efforts for setting up the institute and thanked him.

Speaking on the resolution, leaders of allied parties including S. Peter Alphonse and D. Yasodha (Congress), G.K. Mani (PMK), N. Nanmaran (CPI-M), Ramasamy (CPI), P. Selvam (VCK), traced the efforts of the government to set up the institute and thanked the Union Government for having made the allocation for building it. Mr. Nanmaran said that the institute should function as a place that makes the younger generation interested in the language.

Nurse’s death sparks debate

The death of Karpagavalli a home nurse in Madurai in the house of a patient sparked heated exchanges in the House. While AIADMK deputy leader O. Paneerselvam said that many doubted the suicide theory and made some observations that were expunged, others including Mr. Nanmaran, C. Gnanasekharan (Cong) and T. Velmurugan (PMK) wanted the government to get to the bottom of the issue. Mr. Nanmaran and Mr. Velmurugan wanted a comprehensive enquiry into the issue. PWD Minister Durai Murugan, who also holds the Law portfolio, said that the nurse spoke to a person whom she was in touch with for a few months.

After the conversation, she came back to the house and went into the bathroom. Since she did not come out for a long time, the house owner got alarmed and broke open the door. She was found hanging from a ceiling fan, he said.

The body was taken to the Government Rajaji Hospital where a post-mortem was performed. The post-mortem also confirmed that the death was because of hanging. There were no other injuries on the body.

Her relatives initially refused to accept the body saying that the hospital she was attached to should pay Rs. 1 lakh as compensation.

The hospital initially refused but paid Rs.25,000 as first instalment after which the relatives took the body. Refuting any foul play, the Minister said that if a judicial enquiry was ordered in this case, then every death would have to be treated in the same manner.

The police had picked up the person she was in touch with.

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