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The Economic Survey 2025-26, tabled by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in Parliament connected Thursday, has highlighted immoderate of the cardinal initiatives being implemented by the Tamil Nadu government, including the ‘Thozhi’ moving women’s hostels that supply affordable lodging to moving women.
According to the survey, these hostels, tally by the Tamil Nadu Working Women’s Hostels Corporation done public-private partnerships, are equipped with gender-responsive design, furnished rooms, crèches, kitchens, and shared space. They connection a applicable blueprint for States seeking to grow women workforce.
Women workforce
Tamil Nadu is simply a starring State successful India successful presumption of women labour force. So far, 19 ‘Thozhi’ hostels, equipped with state-of-the-art facilities, person been established successful 15 districts, benefiting 1,824 women. Fourteen much hostels are being built astatine a full outgo of ₹176.93 crore, and they volition accommodate 2,000 women. Two months ago, Chief Minister M.K. Stalin laid the instauration for 12 ‘Thozhi’ hostels costing ₹62.51 crore. These hostels volition payment 740 moving women.
Vulnerable districts
The survey notes that Tamil Nadu has a coastline of 1,069 kilometres crossed 14 districts that are susceptible to shoreline erosion, tempest surges, and sea-level rise. The Tamil Nadu Coastal Restoration Mission (TN-SHORE) employs a multi-pronged attack to amended coastal biodiversity and protection, heighten livelihood, and mitigate pollution.
TN-SHORE is a ₹1,675-crore World Bank-funded task to fortify the State’s coastal resilience and economy. Of the full investment, astir ₹1,000 crore will travel from the World Bank and the State volition lend the rest.
The survey besides highlights Climate Resilient Villages, an inaugural taken up successful Tamil Nadu and successful a fewer different States. It says specified an inaugural demonstrates however resilience tin beryllium institutionalised astatine the grassroots by transforming resilience from a task into a relation of section governance. In Tamil Nadu, Killai near Pichavaram in Cuddalore district, known for its immense mangrove forests, was the archetypal Climate Resilient Village.
It says Tamil Nadu is among the fewer States that person not lone enhanced their concern situation by integrating sustainability measures but besides reduced the clip taken for biology clearance done the Business Reform Action Plan. Besides, Tamil Nadu has enhanced the easiness of doing concern done single-window clearance, digitised approval, and onshore reforms, portion promoting star parks, district-level decarbonisation plans, and vigor ratio programmes.
Effluent attraction
The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board actively monitors concern effluent attraction systems and supports the constitution of communal effluent attraction plants for clusters of small-scale and pollution-intensive industries, specified arsenic tanneries and textile units, to guarantee that treated wastewater meets prescribed biology standards earlier discharge, it notes.
Though the fig of planetary pupil enrolments successful Indian colleges has accrued from 7,000 successful 2000-01 to 49,000 successful 2020, the survey points retired that the earlier hubs, including Tamil Nadu, person reported a decline.
