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Published on Feb 19, 2024
By IANS
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CHENNAI — Tamil Nadu Finance Minister Thangam Thennarasu announced the setting up of the Chief Minister‘s Thayumanavar Scheme to alleviate poverty from the state over the next two years.
The minister while presenting the budget for the financial year 2024-25 made the announcement in the Assembly.
He said the scheme was allocated an amount of INR 27,922 crore under the Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Department. The minister said that this was announced to launch a "final assault on poverty over the next two years".
The Finance Minister said that these funds would be used to help rescue about five lakh of the poorest families from poverty. They will be provided the necessary government assistance in an integrated manner.
He also added that the government would ensure the participation of elected representatives, charitable organisations, and banks for the initiative piloted by the state government.
The Minister also said that under the scheme, the most vulnerable sections of society, including the destitute, elderly persons living alone, single-parent families, orphaned children, those with mental impairments, persons with disabilities and families with children requiring special assistance would be identified.
He said that the identification of the poorest of the poor families will be carried out through the convergence of official databases, field inspections, community participation, and Gram Sabha sessions.
Tamil Nadu Finance Minister Thangam Thennarasu on Monday said that the state would establish an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Mission to develop guidelines for constructively leveraging AI in education, employment, industry, research and medicine.
The AI Mission will also establish clear protocols for its utilisation.
It will involve professors from leading educational institutions in Tamil Nadu, executives from the electronics industry, and experts in the field.
The finance minister stated this while addressing the Assembly during the presentation of the budget for the financial year 2024-25.
The minister said that the Chief Minister’s Breakfast scheme will be extended to government-aided primary schools in rural areas and an amount of INR 600 crore has been allocated for the same.
He said that the Tamil Nadu Government will introduce a special scheme to incentivise additional employment of women in the State. This scheme will offer a payroll subsidy of 10 per cent of the salary of women, differently-abled and transgender employees for two years to all new industrial units providing direct employment to over 500 such individuals from Tamil Nadu.
Thangam Thennarasu said that the state will incentivise the creation of high paying jobs in new Global Capability Centres (GCCs) by providing a payroll subsidy of 30 per cent in the first year, 20 per cent in the second year and 10 per cent in the third year for jobs with pay above INR 1,00,000 per month.
He said that the state government would meet the higher education expenses of transgenders. The minister said that this would be implemented through the transgender welfare board and added that an amount of INR 2 crore has been allotted for the purpose. He said that the Government will also meet the hostel fee of transgenders.
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