T.N. Chief Minister launches day care centres for senior citizens in State

In an inaugural aimed astatine promoting the well-being of elder citizens, particularly those from the moving class, Chief Minister M.K. Stalin connected Monday (November 10, 2025) launched time attraction centres for the elderly, called Anbu Solai, successful 25 places crossed Tamil Nadu.

The strategy was announced by the State authorities successful its Budget for 2025-26. Established with a fiscal allocation of ₹10 crore, the aged tin find companionship and prosecute successful meaningful activities astatine the centres acceptable up by the Department of Social Welfare and Women Empowerment.

Mr. Stalin inaugurated the Anbu Solai astatine Ponamalai successful Tiruchi and successful different places virtually. He went astir the installation and was briefed connected its features and facilities by Social Welfare Minister P. Geetha Jeevan and elder officials. He besides interacted with elder citizens astatine the centre.

Explaining the objectives of the scheme, portion speaking astatine a authorities relation successful Pudukottai earlier successful the day, Mr. Stalin pointed retired that the aged were unsocial astatine galore households of employed couples. “The Anbu Solai centres volition thrust distant their loneliness by creating a friends ellipse for them and keeping them active, physically and mentally. Twenty-five centres person been opened successful the archetypal phase. Indoor games, physiotherapy, grooming successful handicrafts, and different indispensable enactment volition beryllium provided to them astatine these centres. They volition besides beryllium fixed tiffin and lunch. The inaugural volition easiness the hostility among moving couples arsenic the elders are blessed and safe,” Mr. Stalin said.

The Anbu Solai, to beryllium tally with the enactment of voluntary organisations, volition supply assorted services, including day-care assistance done trained personnel. Two centres each person been established successful the Tiruchi, Madurai, Coimbatore, Salem, Erode, Thanjavur, Thoothukudi, Tiruppur, Dindigul, and Vellore Municipal Corporations. One centre each has been acceptable up successful the concern districts of Ranipet and Krishnagiri. In the Greater Chennai Corporation, 3 centres were established successful Sholinganallur, Tondiarpet, and Virugambakkam.