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Expensive Batteries Ground Government’s Drone Didi Scheme

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  Hello guys, as you have read my other blogs this one would be different and close to my heart from others because, I interviewed some real people on the scheme of drone didi, which captivates me to explore more about the scheme.  I was eager to learn about the people and meet them in real life for the first time. In this blog, I share what I learned about the scheme In the quiet village of Onambakkam in Tamil Nadu’s Chengalpattu district,  D. Muniyammal (36), a farmer, had high hopes of using drones to spray fertiliser,  reduce labour costs, and double her monthly income from her 4-acre land.  Muniyammal’s hopes stood ground when she learned about the Namo Drone Didi  scheme while purchasing pesticides from Fertilisers and Chemicals Travancore  Limited (FACT), a fertiliser supplier company. She had an opportunity to use drones to  make fertiliser dispersion more efficient and increase crop production in her rice farm.  The Drone Didi initia...

Parasakthi movie review

  Sudha Kongara known for her power pact story telling and famous for biography movie Soorarai Potru , came back with another powerful yet real incident which made people think beyond realisation of their linguistic rights. The story was adapted from a real life incident  which happened in  1960’s  at Annamalai university in  Chidambaram where students led mass protest against anti hindi protest protecting their linguistic rights and creating equal job opportunities among youth in central government.  It dramatizes the student-led agitation against making Hindi the sole official language, featuring the 1965 riots, police firing at Annamalai University, and the sacrifice of student leader Rajendran.  The film begins with a group of students setting fire on a train which leads to the start of mass protest against Hindi imposition all over the county. Jayam Ravi a well educated Tamil guy who blindly supports central government agenda vows to take revenge ...