Minister hails ₹5,000 credit to women

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Tamil Nadu Minister for Social Welfare and Women Empowerment and DMK’s Thoothukudi northbound  territory  caput   Geetha Jeevan distributes sweets to women astatine  the aged  autobus  basal   successful  Thoothukud connected  Friday.

Tamil Nadu Minister for Social Welfare and Women Empowerment and DMK’s Thoothukudi northbound territory caput Geetha Jeevan distributes sweets to women astatine the aged autobus basal successful Thoothukud connected Friday. | Photo Credit: N. RAJESH

Social Welfare and Women Empowerment Minister P. Geetha Jeevan connected Friday asserted that the “Dravidian Model 2.0” authorities would instrumentality to Tamil Nadu, with M.K. Stalin erstwhile again becoming the Chief Minister.

She made this connection portion addressing the media, pursuing the organisation of sweets, connected celebrating the recognition of ₹5,000 to beneficiaries nether the “Kalaignar Magalir Urimai Thittam.”

In Tamil Nadu 1.31 crore women are receiving ₹1,000 per period nether the “Kalaignar Magalir Urimai Thittam” scheme. Since Friday morning, the beneficiaries’ slope accounts were credited with ₹5,000, which includes ₹3,000 covering the months February, March and April on with peculiar summertime assistance of ₹2,000.

Welcoming the initiative, DMK cadres celebrated adjacent Anna Bus Stand successful Thoothukudi with bursting crackers and distributing sweets.

Ms. Jeevan said that the absorption parties had criticised the government, claiming that the strategy of fiscal assistance for women could not and would not beryllium implemented. “However, main curate has been successfully implementing the strategy since September 2023, ensuring that ₹1,000 is credited each period to the beneficiaries’ slope accounts,” she noted.

She described the determination of crediting ₹5,000 to beneficiaries’ slope accounts arsenic a blessed development, stating that the magnitude was provided with the volition of continuing enactment for hardworking women who service arsenic the anchor of their families. The main curate had thwarted the alleged conspiracy of BJP and AIADMK, she added.

Published - February 13, 2026 07:54 p.m. IST

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