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 Economic Affairs of the finance ministry.
4) e-vehicle
- A total of 62,482 battery operated vehicles, including 59,951 non transport vehicles (personal use), were registered in Tamil Nadu during 2022-23 (till February), compared with 39,617 battery operated vehicles registered during 2021-22.
- The State government has extended the 100% exemption for e-vehicles from motor vehicles tax until December 2025.
