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Minister for Housing, Prohibition and Excise S. Muthusamy on Thursday (January 8, 2026) launched the organisation of Pongal acquisition hampers on with ₹3,000 successful cash to household cardholders successful the district.
The Minister, successful the beingness of District Collector S. Kandasamy, inaugurated the strategy astatine just terms shops functioning nether cooperative recognition societies successful areas including Manickampalayam, Thindal, Veppampalayam, Nasiyanur and Nanjanapuram within the Erode Corporation limits.
Addressing the gathering, Mr. Muthusamy said Chief Minister M.K. Stalin had announced the strategy to alteration radical to observe the 2026 Pongal festival. Under the scheme, each atom cardholders and families residing in Sri Lankan Tamil Rehabilitation Camps will receive one kg of earthy rice, 1 kg of sugar, 1 full sugarcane and ₹3,000 successful cash. The strategy was formally launched by the Chief Minister successful Chennai earlier successful the day.
In Erode district, the Pongal acquisition hampers volition beryllium distributed through 1,270 just terms shops, for which ₹223.95 crore has been allocated. A full of 7,45,155 atom cardholder families and 1,373 families residing successful Sri Lankan Tamil Rehabilitation Camps are expected to benefit.
The Minister said tokens specifying the day and clip of collection had been issued to beneficiaries to forestall overcrowding astatine just terms shops.
As portion of the programme, the Minister distributed Pongal acquisition hampers and currency assistance astatine respective just terms shops and besides inaugurated a new just terms store astatine Pichandampalayam, wherever helium handed implicit the benefits to household cardholders.
Erode East MLA V.C. Chandrakumar, Deputy Mayor V. Selvaraj, District Revenue Officer S. Santha Kumar, Joint Registrar of Cooperative Societies P. Kandaraja, were present.
