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In the past 5 years, the M.K. Stalin authorities had implemented respective payment schemes with far-reaching interaction that helped uplift the lives of women arsenic good arsenic different sections.
It delivered connected its cardinal canvass promises specified arsenic the Kalaignar Magalir Urimai Thittam that entitled 1.31 crore women heads of families to person a monthly rights assistance of ₹1,000 and the Vidiyal Payanam scheme allowing women to question with ‘zero cost’ autobus tickets successful prime routes.
At the aforesaid time, the authorities introduced schemes that did not fig successful its manifesto. This included empowering schemes specified as Pudhumai Penn, Tamil Pudhalvan, Naan Mudhalvan, Illam Thedi Kalvi, Makkalai Thedi Maruthuvam, and Thayumanavar.
But however galore of the 505 promises the DMK made successful 2021 person been fulfilled? The enactment leaders person made varying claims astir this successful the past. Some leaders claimed 90% of them had been honoured.
However, earlier this month, Finance Minister Thangam Thennarasu, officially, successful the beingness of the Chief Minister, announced 75% promises were either fulfilled oregon were being fulfilled.
As for the breakdown, helium said 206 promises had been fulfilled, 170 were being implemented, and 32 were nether the information of the State government, portion 33 were pending with the Union government. As galore arsenic 20 promises were dropped “as not feasible”. The Minister, however, did not notation which of them were recovered unfeasible.
A perusal of the 2021 manifesto, however, threw up immoderate important promises that were either not fulfilled oregon lone partially addressed.
Promise No. 3 successful the manifesto read: “DMK successful its efforts to reason the National Education Policy introduced by the BJP authorities volition formulate a abstracted State Education Policy for Tamil Nadu. To execute this goal, a high-level committee comprising assorted educationists and different experts volition beryllium established.” The authorities did represent the Justice Murugesan Committee. However, it released lone the Tamil Nadu School Education Policy 2025, portion the Higher Education Policy is yet to beryllium formulated.
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A Horticulture University (No. 53) successful Krishnagiri and Agriculture University successful Madurai (No. 54) are inactive connected paper. A abstracted preservation of 2.5% (No. 332) for students from government-aided schools successful aesculapian colleges was not implemented.
The committedness No. 159 that the authorities volition repay postgraduate acquisition loans for students from schools successful Tamil Nadu, nether 30 years of age, who are incapable to wage it backmost wrong a year, was besides not taken forward.
The authorities did not execute the assurance to found Kalaignar Canteens (No. 331) successful 500 locations successful the archetypal signifier to supply nutrient astatine a subsidised outgo for poor, underprivileged radical crossed the State.
As for battling corruption, the DMK promised to found peculiar courts (No. 21) to grip corruption cases against erstwhile AIADMK Ministers and expedite its function. But the DVAC lone registered cases against immoderate erstwhile Ministers.
The authorities besides did not instrumentality immoderate steps to present a authorities to reserve 75% of the backstage assemblage jobs for locals (No. 196). The DMK had besides said precedence would beryllium fixed to archetypal procreation graduates successful authorities jobs (No. 179).
While it had promised to reconstruct the Old Pension Scheme (No. 309), the authorities walked a choky rope; recovered a via media and introduced the Tamil Nadu Assured Pension Scheme.
Among the astir populist promises, the authorities was incapable to fulfil its assurance of giving ₹100 arsenic cooking state cylinder subsidy (No. 503) to ration cardholders. It did not trim the terms of diesel by ₹4 per litre (No. 504).
While arsenic portion of the aforesaid promise, it had promised to chopped petrol terms by ₹5 per litre, the authorities really slashed it by ₹3 (state excise duty).
Nonetheless, the authorities fulfilled its committedness (No. 505) to trim the terms of Aavin beverage by ₹3 per litre.
Its different populist committedness that remains unkept is to present a monthly outgo of energy bills (No. 221). The DMK manifesto had said, “The existing strategy of bimonthly outgo of energy bills volition beryllium replaced with a monthly outgo strategy to easiness the fiscal load connected people. This strategy volition alteration a idiosyncratic household to prevention up to ₹6,000 (for <1000 units) annually.”
While the DMK promised it would get NEET-based aesculapian admissions abolished (No. 160), it could not fulfil it contempt passing a Bill twice, arsenic the President withheld assent.
Promise No. 376 said, “During the contiguous AIADMK government, the Legislative Assembly has been convened for lone a fewer days, due to the fact that of which galore problems faced by radical could not beryllium addressed. Therefore, DMK volition guarantee that the Assembly is convened for astatine slightest 100 days oregon more.” However, the mean yearly sitting days of the Assembly was conscionable 32 days, little than 34 of during the AIADMK regime, according to an investigation by PRS Legislative Research, an autarkic probe body.
