Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin launches Kalaignar Women's Rights Fund Scheme; here's all you need to know
₹1,000 monthly financial assistance scheme for women today i.e. on 15 September. Stalin launched the scheme saying it is a recognition of women's hard work and distributed bank debit cards to several beneficiaries and state ministers rolled out the programme in their districts.
It is a matter of pride that the scheme is launched on the birth anniversary of Anna and during the centenary (2023-24) of Karunanidhi, CM Stalin said. A basic income programme, it is named after former Chief Minister M Karunanidhi and the state government has christened the assistance the "right" of women. -The scheme is known as Kalaignar Magalir Urimai Thogai Thittam' scheme (Kalaignar Women's rights fund scheme).
-Late DMK patriarch Karunanidhi (1924-2018) is popularly known as Kalaignar, which means an artist of eminence. -According to the scheme, monthly financial assistance of ₹1,000 will be provided to all eligible women beneficiaries of Tamil Nadu. -The government has identified as many as 1.06 crore women (1,06,50,000) as beneficiaries under the plan and the ₹1,000 assistance is paid to beneficiaries through Direct Benefit Transfer.
-The state government had months ago announced that the scheme, a key feature of DMK's manifesto ahead of the 2021 Tamil Nadu Assembly election, would be launched on September 15, on the birth anniversary of Annadurai. Kancheepuram is Annadurai's home town who steered the DMK to its first ever grand victory in the assembly election in 1967 and he was Tamil Nadu's Chief Minister between 1967 and 1969. Annadurai founded the DMK in 1949.
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