As many as 4,909 women beneficiaries turned up at the Madurai Corporation’s Anna Maaligai here on Tuesday and received assistance to the tune of Rs.23 crore under the ‘thaalikku thangam’ scheme.
Each beneficiary got four grams of gold besides either Rs.25,000 or Rs.50,000, depending on educational qualification.
Cooperation Minister ‘Sellur’ K. Raju, Mayor V.V. Rajan Chellappa, Collector L. Subramanian and Corporation Commissioner C. Kathiravan along with MLAs and councillors, participated in the distribution function.
“No other State in the country has so many welfare schemes as we do in Tamil Nadu. Even Gujarat, where Narendra Modi was Chief Minister, does not have schemes like in Tamil Nadu. Ours is a government which respects woman since our Indian culture respects womanhood. Starting from cradle baby scheme for preventing female infanticide up to the present marriage assistance scheme giving gold and cash, everything is a role model here,” MrRaju said.
Mr. Subramanian said that in the last four years, 23,431 women received gold and cash assistance to the tune of Rs.104 crore under the ‘thalikku thangam’ scheme.
Similarly, the free laptop scheme too was implemented effectively in the district as already 1, 11, 002 students were given Rs.155 crore worth laptops.
Over 6.5 lakh school students received four sets of free school uniform in the last four years.
Mr. Kathiravan said that the Corporation had so far disbursed Rs.40 crore as welfare assistance to beneficiaries.
