Children of construction workers to get free education if admitted to premier institutions and medical colleges. The children of those registered themselves with the Tamil Nadu Construction Workers’ Welfare Board (TNCWWB) will get free education and ₹50,000 per year to meet their living expenses during the course if they get admitted to any Indian Institute of Technology, Indian Institute of Management or a government medical college in Tamil Nadu for MBBS course. A total of 35 students were likely to benefit from the scheme initially, although there is no ceiling on the number of beneficiaries. The tuition fee and hostel fee for these students would be taken care of by the government, besides the sum of ₹50,000 per annum. Members of the TNCWWB who are undergoing treatment for illnesses such as cancer, asthma, renal failure and silicosis, due to which they are unable to work, will be provided a yearly assistance of ₹12,000, which will be released in two instalments. This scheme will be implemented for three years initially. The Madras High Court appointed retired judge M. Sathyanarayanan as a one-man commission of inquiry into the incident of human faces found in an overhead tank that supplied water to Scheduled Caste residents of Vengaivayal in Pudukkottai district. As part of the Safe City project under the Nirbhaya Fund, closed circuit television cameras had been fitted in 2,500 buses of the Metropolitan Transport Corporation (MTC) at a cost of ₹72.71 crore. About Nirbhaya fund: Rs 1,000 crore Nirbhaya Fund was announced in Union Budget 2013. The corpus was to be utilised for upholding safety and dignity of women. Ministry of Women and Child Development apart from several other concerned ministries were authorised to work out details of structure, scope and application of this fund. The Fund is administered by Department of…
