Tamilnadu Issues

JJ in Day 1 in 2016
• prohibition in a phased manner
• 100 units of free power in two-month bill cycle
• Orders free 200 units of power to handloom weavers.
• free breakfast scheme for government school students
• waiver of crop loans for farmers (5780 crores)
• 8 grams of gold to women for “thali”
 Recent schemes under New CM
• Funds for Pregnant women from 12k to 18k
• Amma Two Wheeler scheme
• Neera Drink
• Kudi maramathu thittam

50% reservation for women in local bodies

• Focusing on women empowerment
• Tamil Nadu is the 17th state to legislate 50% representation for
women in local bodies
 AMMA Scooter
• 70th Birth Anniversary of Jayalalitha on 24th, February 2018
• subsidy component of 50 per cent upto Rs 25,000 for
• For working women
• License Holder, 8th standard, 2.5 lakhs annual income
• Age 18 to 40
• Physically challenged and transgender also
 Kudi Maramathu Scheme
• aims to restore the water bodies of Tamil Nadu such as dams, lakes and
reservoirs,
• with the help of local farmers
• Government Order on 4th July, 2018 regarding the appointment of 7
IAS Officers as monitoring officers of the scheme
• launched on 13 March 2017 by Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami
at Manimangalam village in Kancheepuram district
• It included maintenance works in supply channels, canals, tanks,
shutters, strengthening and reconstruction of surplus weirs and sluices.
• It has been allocated an amount of 100 crores in its first phase.
• As per the scheme, the beneficiaries or the farmers have to
contribute 10 percent of the allocation.
• This contribution can be in the form of cash, labour or material.
• The scheme has also received financial assistance from the World
Bank.
• It aims to remove weeds from water bodies and strengthen their
water-banks.
 Nutritious Meal Programme
• Mid-Day Meal Scheme
• popularly called as Puratchi Thalaivar MGR Meal Programme
• launched in Primary Schools for classes I-V during 1st July 1982 and
to Pre-school Children of 2-5 years in Rural areas.
• extended to Nutritious Meal Centres in urban areas from 15-9-
1982
• further extended to school students in the age group of 10 to 15
from September 1984.
• The students in 1 to V Standard do receive nutritious meal
throughout the year (except holidays)
• Those in the VI to X Standard receive the meal in all the school
working days (220 days).
Objectives
• Achieving universal primary education, motivation for further
education, increasing enrolment, retention & reducing dropouts.
• To make available nutritious food to children enrolled in schools
thereby reducing child mortality, morbidity & malnutrition.
• To develop the grasping power of children by improving the
nutrition level.
• Combating all diseases including those resulting due to
deficiencies.
• Reduce gender gap in education.
• To develop the feelings of brotherhood and to develop positive
outlook through combined fooding for the children belonging to
different religions and castes.
Day and Menu
• Monday - White Rice, Vegetable Sambar with one boiled egg (one
banana for those who do not eat egg)
• Tuesday - White Rice, Vegetable Sambar with one boiled egg (one
banana for those who do not eat egg) and 20 gms of boiled green
gram or Bengal gram (alternatively)
• Wednesday - White Rice, Vegetable Sambar with one boiled egg
(one banana for those who do not eat egg)
• Thursday - White Rice, Vegetable Sambar with one boiled egg (one
banana for those who do not eat egg)
• Friday - White Rice, Vegetable Sambar with one boiled egg (one
banana for those who do not eat egg) and 20 gms of boiled potato
 TN CM GIRL CHILD PROTECTION SCHEME
• Earlier as Sivagami Ammaiyar Memorial girl child protection scheme
• Promoting education of girl children,
• eradicating female infanticide,
• discouraging the preference for male child,
• promoting the small family norm,
• promoting the welfare of girl children in poor families and to raise the
status of girl children.
• Encourage girls to get married only after the age of 18 years.
• Encourage parents to adopt family planning norm with two girl children.
eligibility criteria
• The family only has one girl child and no male child in the family.
• In future no male child should be adopted.
• Age of the child should be less than 3 years at the time of
enrollment in the scheme.
• Annual income of the family should not exceed Rs. 72,000/-
• Either of the parents should have undergone sterilization within 35
years of age.
Scheme-I
• An amount of Rs. 50,000 is deposited in the name of the girl child
born on or after 01/08/2011,
• in the form of fixed deposit with the Tamil Nadu Power Finance and
Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited,
• for a family with one girl child only.
• The copy of the fixed deposit receipt is given to the family of the
girl child.
Scheme-II
• An amount of Rs. 25,000 is deposited in the names of two girl
children born on or after 01/08/2011
• In the form of fixed deposit with Tamil Nadu Power Finance and
Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited,
• For a family with two girl children only.
• The copy of the fixed deposit receipt is given to the family of the
girl children.
• The above deposit is renewed at the end of every 5 years
• On completion of 18 years of age the amount deposited along with
interest will be given to the girl child.
• To get this benefit, the girl child should appear for 10th standard
public examination.
• Thus, the matured amount will help the girl child to pursue her
higher education.
• An annual incentive of Rs.1800 is given to the girl child every year
from the 6th year of depo
• Annual income limit Rs.72000/
• From the year 2013-14, Marriage Assistance Scheme have also
been extended to the beneficiaries under the Girl Child Protection
Scheme who were enrolled in the years from 1992 to 1995.
• Female literacy from 64.55% in 2001 to 73.44% in 2011 and
• Reduction in the dropout rate of girl children.
 Cradle Baby Scheme
• Launched in the year 1992 at Salem
• Later in 2001 Madurai, Theni, Dindigul and Dharmapuri
• In 2011 Cuddalore, Ariyalur, Perambulur, Villupuram and
Thiruvannamalai
Objective
• To eliminate the incidence of female infanticide and to create
awareness among people regarding equality of gender.
• To provide social empowerment to girl children.
Beneficiaries
• Deserted, abandoned & surrendered babies
Eligibility
• Cradles are placed in reception centers, District social welfare board
offices, District Collectorates, Hospitals, Primary Health Centers,
Orphanages, and Children Homes to receive unwanted babies
• Surrendered/abandoned children are then placed in Government
recognized institutions/centres for adoption by eligible couples
• The differently abled children who are unable to be given in for
adoption are handed over to specialized agencies for care and
protection.
• NGO/citizens are encouraged to bring abandoned babies.
• The District social welfare officer and extension officers (Social
welfare) are the officials for availing the information to
beneficiaries and also organize camps, seminars and conferences to
create awareness about female infanticide.
• Cradle baby centers set up cost is Rs. 47.45 lakh and each center
have a superintendent, an assistant nurse, an assistant and other
workers and adequate stock of milk powder, medicine and clothes.
Benefits
• Under Assistance to scheme for Girls Child, an amount of Rs.50,000 is
deposited in the name of a girl child for a family with only one girl child
and
• a sum of Rs.25,000 is deposited for a family with two girl children.
• The fixed deposit will be renewed periodically once in five years.
• An annual incentive of Rs.1,800 is being given to the girl children on
completion of the five years of deposit and it will continue up to the
20th year of deposit for her educational purpose.
• The maturity value is payable to girl child only if the child studies
up to 10th Std and has appeared for the Public Examination.
• The fixed deposits under the scheme are maintained with the Tamil
Nadu Power Finance and Infrastructure Development Corporation
Limited, in a specially designed cumulative interest payment
scheme.
Result
• child sex ratio which was 942/1000 in 2001 has risen to 943/1000
in 2011
 Marriage Assistance Schemes
Standard Criteria
• Scheme – I Rs.25,000/ + 8 gm (1 sovereign) gold coin 22 carat is
provided for making Thirumangalyam.
• Scheme- II Rs.50,000/ + 8 grams gold (1 sovereign) 22 carat gold
coin for making Thirumangalyam
• Social Welfare and Nutritious Meal Programme Department
 Educational Criteria
• For Scheme- I: The bride should have studied 10th Std (passed or
failed) / for Tribes 5th Std
• For Scheme- II: Degree Holders/ Diploma holders
MOOVALUR RAMAMIRTHAM AMMAIYAR NINAIVU MARRIAGE
ASSISTANCE SCHEME
• To provide assistance to poor parents in getting their daughters
married and to promote the educational status of poor girls.
• Not exceeding Rs.72,000/- per annum for the family
• Bride should have completed 18 years of age at the time of
marriage.
• There is no upper age limit.
• Only one girl from a family is eligible
Dr. DHARMAMBAL AMMAIYAR NINAIVU WIDOW REMARRIAGE
ASSISTANCE SCHEME
• To encourage widow remarriage and to rehabilitate widows.
• Minimum age of 20 years for the bride and maximum age of 40 for
the bridegroom
• No income ceiling and educational criteria for scheme I - 15000 by
ECS and 10000 by Cheque
• In case of Degree/Diploma – 30000 by ECS and 20000 by Cheque
E.V.R MANIAMMAIYAR NINAIVU MARRIAGE ASSISTANCE SCHEME FOR
DAUGHTERS OF POOR WIDOWS
• To help the poor widows by providing assistance for the
marriage of their daughters.
• Annual income of the family should not exceed Rs.72,000/-
• Bride should have completed 18 years of age at the time of
marriage.
• There is no upper age limit.
• Only one daughter of the poor widow is eligible
ANNAI THERESA NINAIVU MARRIAGE ASSISTANCE SCHEME FOR
ORPHAN GIRLS
• To help the orphan girls financially for their marriage.
• Bride should have completed 18 years of age at the time of
marriage.
• There is no upper age limit.
Dr. MUTHULAKSHMI REDDY NINAIVU INTERCASTE MARRIAGE
ASSISTANCE SCHEME
• To abolish caste and community feelings based on birth and wiping
out discrimination by encouraging inter-caste marriage.
• Inter caste married couple.
• No income limit
• Bride should have completed 18 years of age.
• There is no upper age limit.
• two categories of inter-caste marriages
• Category I - one spouse should be from Scheduled caste /
Scheduled tribe and the other from a different Community.
• Category II - one spouse is from other community (forward
community) and the other from the Backward Class / Most
Backward Class Community.
SATHIYAVANI MUTHU AMMAIYAR NINAIVU FREE SUPPLY OF
SEWING MACHINE SCHEME
• Sewing Machines are supplied free of cost with a view to increase
the self employment potential
• for rehabilitation of destitute women/widows, deserted wives,
differently Abled men and women, socially affected women and
women from economically weaker sections.
• Destitute women/widows, deserted wives, differently abled men
and women, socially affected women and women from
economically weaker sections.
• Not exceeding Rs.72,000 per annum
• 20 to 40 years
• Should have knowledge of tailoring
• implemented by the Social Welfare and Nutritious Meal
Programme Department.
 AMMA Thittam
• Since 24-02-2013
• Assured Maximum Service to Marginal People in All Villages
• a group headed by Revenue Department officials and Tashildar
would visit every village on every Tuesday to meet the people and
seek their grievances
• Patta Transfers (With out Sub Division related)
• Ration Cards - Corrections
• Birth / Death Certificates
• Community Certificate / Income Certificate / Nativity Certificate /
Residential Certificates
• Legal heir certificates
• Fist Graduate Certificate
• Two Girl Children only certificate
• Old Age Pension
• Certificates to farmers
 THAI Scheme
(Tamil Nadu Village Habitations Improvement)
• By Tamil nadu Rural Development since 2011/12
• to overcome the bottlenecks in the uneven distribution of
resources and to provide minimum basic infrastructure facilities to
all the habitations.
• Tamil Nadu is the only State focusing on ‘Habitation’ as the unit of
development and no other State in the Country is implementing
such an innovative scheme.
 Minimum Basic Requirements
• Water Supply
• Street Lights
• Cement Concrete Roads
• Link Roads
• Cremation / Burial Grounds
• Pathway to Burial Ground
 AMMA Schemes
AMMA Unavagam
• Since 2013
• Under the scheme, municipal corporations of the state run canteens serving
subsidized food at low prices
• All Municipal Corporations
AMMA Baby Care Kit
• Since 2014
• Every mother who gave birth in the government hospital gets 16 types of products
worth Rs 1000
• kit contains a baby towel, dress, bed, mosquito net, baby oil, soap, sanitizer, doll,
medicine (for both the mother and the baby)
 AMMA Kudineer
• Launched on September 15, 2013 on the `105’ birth anniversary of
Annadurai
• a mineral water production and distribution project
• The project involves production and packaging of mineral water in
one litre plastic bottles, and selling them in long-distance running
state-owned buses and in bus stations.
• The price has been fixed at INR 10 per bottle
• The scheme is run by the Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation, with
a production plant in Gummidipoondi in Thiruvallur district
• poor families across the city would receive 20 litres of purified drinking
water free of cost.
• In the first phase, 100 localities in Chennai will be chosen for this
initiative.
• on a 55-acre land that belongs to the Institute of Road Transport (IRT), a
subsidiary of the Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation.
• The total dissolved solids (TDS) in the water is reported to be below 50
parts per million (ppm)
 AMMA salt
• Since 2014
• made by the Tamil Nadu Salt Corporation (TNSC) for the benefit of
the weaker sections
• three varieties - Double Fortified Salt, Refined Free Flow Iodized
Salt and Low Sodium Salt
• priced at Rs 25, Rs 21 and Rs 14
• To give an impetus to the development of the backward area of
Ramanathapuram District, Tamil Nadu in South India.
• To generate employment opportunities to ameliorate the living
condition of the weaker segment of the society.
• To exploit the potential resource of the sea for the production of
salt, salt based bye-products and marine chemicals.
• To eliminate the commonly prevailing micronutrient deficiencies
like Iron and Iodine among the school going children, women and
other rural population by the supplementation of Iron & Iodine
through iodized Salt and Double Fortified Salt.
 AMMA Amudham Super Markets
• 54 AMMA Amudham Departmental store in 25 districts on
11.01.2016.
• By Tamilnadu Civil Supplies Corporation
• under Prize Stabilization Fund
• To provide provisional things in the cheap price
 AMMA CEMENT
• It was announced by Jayalalithaa in September 2014
• First from Srirangam constituency in Tiruchi district in January
2015.
• to help lower and middle income groups purchase cement at
subsidised prices.
• Amma Cement hit markets at Rs.190 a bag
• Produced by Tamilnadu Cements Corporation Limited (TANCEM)
• Beneficiaries – Government’s Solar Powered Green house Scheme
and PM Awas Yojana
• The original cost of a cement bag is about Rs 360 here and the price will
be reduced to nearly half under the scheme.
• Consumers building houses will be issued 50 bags per 100 square feet,
subject to a maximum of 750 bags for 1,500 square feet.
• The general public can get a minimum of 10 to a maximum of 100
cement bags under the scheme.
• sold through 220 godown of the Tamil Nadu Civil Supplies Corporation
(TNCSC)
• sold through 250 godown of the Rural Development and Panchayat
Department across the State.
 AMMA SEEDS
• launched “Amma seeds” scheme on January 2, 2016.
• to provide certified quality seeds to farmers with a view to increase
agricultural production in the State
• to encourage farmers to use certified seed.
• Urban residential area will be encouraged to produce Vegetable above
the roofs of the houses.
• sold through Amma Service Centres and at a reasonable price
• Tamil Nadu Seeds Development Agency (TNDSA) will act as the nodal
body
• expanding a scheme for urban citizens to grow vegetables at home
to Tiruchirappalli and Madurai.
• The scheme, which involves providing kits with necessary
ingredients to people to try out vegetable farming in urban
environment, has been successfully implemented in Chennai and
Coimbatore following its launch last year (2015)
 Amma pharmacy
• Launched on 26, June 2014
• These medical shops sell all kind of medicines - generic and
branded lower than the market rates.
• It will ‘sell quality medicines at fair prices’
• Daily wage labourers are the most benefited from this scheme.
• Chennai, Erode, Salem, Cuddalore, Erode, Madurai, Sivaganga and
Virudhunagar
 AMMA Call Centre
• In 20, January 2016 the toll-free number 1100
• For round the clock throughout the year
• In the initial phase to receive at least 15,000 calls per day
• for people to register grievances about government
departments.
• The details of the grievances from callers would be sent to
officials concerned through e-mail, phone call and text
messages.
• The caller too would be informed about the officer, who has been
informed of the complaint and further the action taken on it
• The Amma call centre is considered as an extension of CM’s cell,
where she receives petitions from the public directly or by post or
e-mail.
 AMMA Service Centre
• It was announced in August 8, 2014
• Amma Makkal Sevai Maiyyam' (Amma People's Service Centre)
• The corporations on every Wednesday hold this centre - For Urban
Audience
• to facilitate delivery of public services such as issue of birth and death
certificates, trade licenses, ration cards, drinking water and sewage
connections, permission for building and so on.
• the objective of the service centres was to help out those who could
not meet officials on tour, and to avoid any delay in the delivery of
services.
 AMMA Vegetable Shops
• Since June 21, 2013
• Pannai Pasumai Nugarvor Kootturavu Kadai or farm fresh
cooperative store
• To stem rising vegetable prices
• fair price vegetable shops to sell farm-fresh vegetables at
substantially lower rates in Chennai and its suburbs
• The government departments (cooperation, food and consumer
protection) procure vegetables directly from the farmers for the
shops.
• With this step, the government has been able to keep the prices
low by keeping the middlemen at bay.
• What is noteworthy that the move has not burdened the
exchequer with a subsidy burden.
 AMMA micro loans scheme
• Launched on January 23, 2016
• To provide micro loans for small traders who were affected by last
year’s (2015) floods.
• The traders can avail loan upto Rs.5,000 from cooperative banks and
the government will pay the interest of 11%.
• They can repay it as little as Rs. 200 a week over 25 weeks.
• Those who do not repay the loan in 25 weeks will be charged a nominal
interest of 4% on the outstanding amount
• Those who pay on time are eligible for higher loans upto Rs. 25,000.
• Sellers of flowers, fruits and vegetables, and other small vendors
• The objective of the scheme is to help out small traders who are
forced to take loans at a high rate of interest from moneylenders
 AMMA Mobile
• Announced in September 2015
• mobile phone handset with a 3G sim card, a camera and GPRS
• Under the scheme, "computerized mobile phones" loaded with
special Tamil software would be provided to 20,000 self-help group
(SHG) trainers in the first phase at a cost of Rs 15 crore,
• The monthly cost for operating the phones would be borne by the
Tamil Nadu Corporation for Development of Women.
 AMMA Laptops
• From 15, September, 2011 for school students
• studying in Government and Government-aided schools and
colleges in the state to facilitate them in acquiring better skills.
• From Plus Two onwards to Under Graduates, including those
pursuing Engineering and Polytechnic.
• Though of different brands, each laptop is equipped with a dual
core processor with 2GB RAM, 120 Hard Disk with WiFi facility.
• Designed to ensure computer penetration and bridging the digital
divide
• The state-owned ELCOT (Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu)
functions as the nodal agency
• other states with Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh and Odisha following suit.
 Transgender measures
• first state to introduce a transgender (hijra/ aravani) welfare policy.
• a special database of transgenders - first in the country
• Transgender welfare board - 15 April as ‘Thirunangai Day’
(Transgender Day) to commemorate the day in which the
Transgender Welfare Board was formed
• Free ration cards and free housing schemes
• opportunity to change sex without any fee through operation at
the Government General Hospital.
• Free education in Manonmaniyam Sundaranar university
• Monthly stipend of 3000 rupees
• Swapna is the first trans person to clear TNPSC Group IV exams
• K. Prithika Yashini received appointment orders from Chennai City
Police
 Miscellaneous
• AMMA Bus – Chennai Small bus
• AMMA TNFDC Fish Stall Chennai
• FREE RICE (20KG) For the Poor
• AMMA Mixie, Grinder and Fan
• Free Milch Cow and Goat
• AMMA Gym
• Proposed – AMMA Cinemas