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At the Tamil Nadu Global Women Summit 2026 successful Chennai connected Tuesday, Chief Minister M.K. Stalin launched the Tamil Nadu Women Employment and Safety (TNWESafe) Project and the quality papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination programme. Mr. Stalin said his authorities would enactment towards the indispensable infrastructure for education, employment, entrepreneurship, and a harmless situation for women.
The TNWESafe Project is financed by a World Bank indebtedness and structured to beforehand sustainable and inclusive economical improvement done targeted interventions focused connected employment, safety, and empowerment of women.
The five-year project, with an outlay of ₹5,000 crore, includes a indebtedness from the World Bank to the tune of ₹1,185 crore. During his speech, Mr. Stalin listed the assorted measures undertaken by his authorities for the payment and empowerment of women.
The HPV vaccination programme volition payment 3,38,649 girls supra 14 years of age, Mr. Stalin said. Initially, the programme would beryllium launched successful 4 districts — Ariyalur, Dharmapuri, Perambalur, and Tiruvannamalai. A full of 30,209 girls aged supra 14 successful these districts volition beryllium administered the vaccine, helium said. The Chief Minister besides recalled having flagged disconnected ‘Wellness connected Wheels’ vehicles to connection escaped bosom crab screening successful each 38 districts successful November past year.
Deputy Chief Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin recalled the efforts taken by the Tamil Nadu authorities for the payment of women and said the TNWESAFe Project would further heighten the safety, growth, and wide wellbeing of women.
Removing barriers
World Bank Regional Director Cem Mete said the further accent of the task to supply enabling services specified arsenic attraction services, safety, and lodging was captious to region barriers limiting women’s entree to prime jobs.
“WESafe exemplary is recognised arsenic an innovative exemplary that tin beryllium adopted crossed different States and countries.”
“As mentioned before, Tamil Nadu is doing truthful overmuch amended than galore different States. Here, determination is inactive large request for betterment and a systematic approach, but we consciousness the adjacent clip I come, we volition beryllium capable to showcase this exemplary to different States and countries,” Mr. Mete said.
Industrialist Mallika Srinivasan said employment and entrepreneurship were the gateways done which women gained not lone income but besides agency, voice, and dignity. “Economic empowerment is transformative and enables women to marque choices, put successful their families and substance assemblage prosperity,” she said. She besides underlined that women remained under-represented successful vocational grooming and called for the requisite infrastructure and industry-aligned acquisition curriculum. The Chief Minister besides released the Tamil Nadu Cancer Care Mission document, which spelled retired a broad attack to trim crab mortality and specified measures that would beryllium taken successful the adjacent 5 years.
Earlier successful the day, Mr. Stalin besides flagged disconnected further pinkish buses and autorickshaws.
Ministers T.M. Anbarasan, P. Geetha Jeevan and Ma. Subramanian; Chennai Mayor R. Priya, elected representatives; Chief Secretary N. Muruganandam and elder officials participated.
