00:00For the moment, we cut across to the Tamil Nadu Assembly as Vijay's big Tamil push is underway.
00:05Vijay has more resolution on Tamil language.
00:08Vijay has said that Tamil is the primary language and that is what he stated in the Madras High Court.
00:15Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Vijay has read out the resolution in the Tamil Nadu Assembly
00:19where Vijay has said that greater use of Tamil in the Madras High Court is a must.
00:24Vijay has also said that he urges the centre to facilitate the use of Tamil.
00:29Let's listen in.
01:00This is one of the
01:37The Union Government and the President to take place to make Tamil language as a principal
01:45language of the Madras High Court, and I urge the members here to pass this resolution
01:54anonymously.
01:55Tamil should be made in the language in Madras University resolution.
02:24Tamil was recognized as a classical language by the Union Government on 12 October 2004.
02:57The Constitution of the U.S.
03:00Official Language Act 1963 provides legal mechanisms for the use of the official language in High
03:06Court proceedings.
03:07The Constitution of the U.S.
03:10The Constitution of the U.S.
03:17The Constitution of the U.S.
03:17The Constitution of the U.S.
03:37Tamir is an ancient language that has been spoken by eight core people in India.
03:51On 12 October 2004, Tamir was recognized as classical language by the Union Government.
04:03A resolution passed in 2006 to make Tamil as a principal language in Madras, Bangkok.
04:28In 2012, the Supreme Court did not accept this.
04:45As artificial intelligence and translate, Tamil into English simultaneously, this should be reconsidered.
05:04Recognize Tamil as the principal language of the Madras High Court.
05:08Accept these procedures for petitions, documents and arguments to be filed or present in Tamil.
05:16Make high court judgments, degrees and judicial orders available in Tamil.
05:24Provide training in legal, family and transportation for judges, advocates and court personnel.
05:31Take the necessary legal measures under Article 348-2 of the Constitution and Section 7 of the Official Languages Act
05:401963.
05:46Tamil Nadu essentially urges the Union Government to take the above the action.
06:02Meanwhile, we also get you details of Vijay's mega new secretariat push in the state of Tamil Nadu,
06:07where Vijay has said that the new secretariat is coming up in a 20,000 lakh square feet space.
06:14Vijay has said that the estimated cost of the secretariat is approximately 1800 crore rupees.
06:19Vijay has also said that he is unable to expand Fort St. George.
06:24Vijay also stating that fire safety accessibility at the new secretariat is the priority given the structural constraints,
06:32given the space constraint in the original structure.
06:37While that is what the TVK government states that due to parking issues,
06:41due to increasing crowd or footfall in the Tamil Nadu assembly and structural constraints that is leading the TVK government,
06:49to take this decision and to push for new secretariat to take this decision and to push for new secretariat
06:54in Tamil Nadu,
06:55where he said that the new space will be spread out over 20,000 lakh square feet.
07:01He said that the estimated cost of the secretariat is going to be 1800 crore rupees.
07:06Let me take this to my colleague Apoorva to get further details of how the TVK government is planning on
07:12the new secretariat.
07:20Well, that's right. In fact, if you do see, this is an important announcement that has been made by Tamil
07:25Nadu Chief Minister Joseph C. Vijay.
07:27We have earlier on also seen how there had been several talks regarding the new secretariat as well.
07:32This has been a burning question here in the Tamil Nadu assembly time and time again,
07:37because there has to be a new secretariat that needs to be constructed.
07:42And earlier on, even when J.J. Elilita was then the former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu,
07:46or be it Kalineer Karunanidi, this discussion of getting a new secretariat had been brought up in the Tamil Nadu
07:52assembly as well.
07:53On the same lines, now we see the newly elected Chief Minister from the TVK going ahead and making this
08:01announcement.
08:01He has also said that, yes, while there is important prominence that St. George holds here in Tamil Nadu,
08:08and it has been a part of the Tamil Nadu secretariat time and time again,
08:12that simply this cannot go on further because there is a space constraint,
08:16which is why there needs to be a new secretariat that needs to be brought up.
08:20In fact, the Chief Minister also talks about the Omandurar Specialty,
08:24which is now a multi-specialty hospital there, that earlier being proposed as a new secretariat,
08:29but later on changed to a multi-specialty building, whereby there isn't any other space that is available
08:35for a fully functional secretariat to handle the kind of the people and the kind of administration that is coming
08:44in.
08:44So, for the next 100 years, foreseeing this to be an obstacle that the TVK government
08:49can overcome, the Tamil Nadu government will now go ahead and look into alternate measures
08:54to see for a new construction of a new secretariat here,
08:58to ensure that all departments can unilaterally function together,
09:02rather than having one space and, you know, functioning as one part of the secretariat,
09:07while other space functioning as the second part of the secretariat, is what the Chief Minister has announced.
09:11He has also mentioned that the Fort George is, importantly, a very cultural and a very significant part of the
09:20Tamil Nadu secretariat
09:21for years and years now and that the significance of St. Fort George will not be watered down,
09:27but rather, as for the Tamil Nadu new secretariat, there are plans that will be taken into, you know, proper
09:34guidelines
09:35and there will be a new secretariat that will be constructed at a cost of roughly over 1800 crores worth
09:41of money,
09:42is what the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, Joseph C. Vijay, has announced today in the Tamil Nadu Assembly.
09:48Apoorva, what more details are you picking up from your sources within the TVQ of the spaces that they are
09:53now considering
09:54for the new secretariat and also the sort of responses that are coming in from the other parties?
10:03Well, in fact, the Tamil Nadu Assembly is still ongoing. In fact, the Chief Minister has just now made the
10:09announcement as well,
10:10but like I have rightly, you know, pointed out before, the need for the new secretariat has been going on
10:17time and time again,
10:18one government after the other. Even when, during the time of J. Jailulita, the former AIADMK Supremo
10:24and Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu or during the time of Kalenir Karunanadi and even the last time as well,
10:30the need for a new secretariat had been echoing in across the Tamil Nadu, you know, government and political circles
10:37as well
10:37and that's why we're also seeing now the TVK government going ahead and saying that they will likely be looking
10:43at possible ventures
10:44to go ahead and look for a new secretariat here for Tamil Nadu and for the Tamil Nadu Assembly as
10:51well.
10:51For so long, it has always been that there was always a secretariat and assembly proceedings that were taking place
10:58at Fort St. George,
10:59which is where even today the assembly proceedings are taking place.
11:03But the Chief Minister has categorically announced that yes, this simply cannot be the mode of functioning for the Tamil
11:10Nadu assembly going for long,
11:12given that there is space constraints in this, you know, particular location as well.
11:17And there are also other departments that are simultaneously functioning right out of Fort St. George as well,
11:23which is that this definitely will not be, you know, a long term plan.
11:26Now, the Chief Minister has come out and announced that there are possible avenues, alternate avenues that the TVK government
11:33will be looking into.
11:35And this especially given that this will be a mode to ensure that the entire, you know, secretariat as well
11:42as all the proceedings
11:43and all the kind of development that needs to take place will take place in one unanimous manner.
11:49And that is why this entire plan of a new secretariat has been proposed by the Chief Minister of Tamil
11:54Nadu, Joseph C. Vijay.
11:56Oh yes, absolutely.
11:57Apoorva, I request you to stay on with us.
11:58Let's play out the latest statement by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Vijay.
12:24Yes, Vijay's mega new secretariat plan where he said that the new secretariat will be built in Chennai itself.
12:30He said that the new secretariat will remain functional for the next hundred years.
12:36The new secretariat will come up in a 20,000 lakh square foot space is what Vijay has said.
12:42He's also said that the estimated cost of the secretariat will be approximately 1800 crore rupees.
12:47However, he's also mentioned this very clearly that they will be unable to expand the Fort St. George property.
12:57Fire safety accessibility that will be of prime importance at the new secretariat are the announcements as the Vijay government
13:04is pushing for the new secretariat.
13:06I think he I am a commissioner for the beautiful joop and IMay and, in fact, that the new secretariat
13:07is important
13:07for employees from all of his or of itself.
13:08Now my kroo is a
