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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin connected Monday (February 9, 2026) launched the expansion of the State’s escaped repast programme to payment 1 lakh much sanitation workers successful municipality section bodies (ULBs). He had launched the programme for the sanitation workers of the Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) past year.
The expansion, launched by the Chief Minister during an lawsuit astatine Polivakkam successful Tiruvallur district, would benefit 48,768 workers successful 24 Corporations, 29,556 workers successful 145 Municipalities, and 21,910 workers successful 479 municipality panchayats. Earlier, the programme was launched successful the GCC to payment 29,455 workers.
Mr. Stalin said his authorities was providing lodging facilities, indebtedness assistance for entrepreneurship, beingness insurance, and acquisition assistance for the children of sanitation workers. “We would supply much payment initiatives and would basal by the sanitation workers,” helium said successful a societal media post.
Ministers K.N. Nehru, S.M. Nasar, and M. Mathiventhan; MP. S. Jagathrakshakan; legislators S. Chandran, V.G. Raajendran, T.J. Govindarajan, S. Sudharsanam, A. Krishnaswamy, K. Ganapathy, and Durai Chandrasekar; Chief Secretary N. Muruganandam, and elder officials were contiguous connected the occasion.
Following the melodramatic eviction of conservancy workers staging a protestation astatine the Ripon Buildings successful Chennai past year, a gathering of the Tamil Nadu Cabinet connected August 14, 2025, approved six proposals aimed astatine the payment of conservancy workers successful the State. One of them was to supply escaped meal to them.
