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Balancing a telephone for greater State autonomy with an assurance of cooperation, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay said connected Thursday (June 11, 2026) that his authorities would enactment constructively with the Centre adjacent portion safeguarding the State’s interests and aspirations.
In his debut code astatine the 11th Governing Council gathering of NITI Aayog chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi successful New Delhi, Mr. Vijay said Tamil Nadu wholeheartedly supported the nation’s aspirations and believed a developed India could beryllium built lone done empowered States, cooperative federalism, and inclusive development. “The radical of Tamil Nadu person entrusted our authorities with a historical mandate founded connected transparent governance, societal justice, inclusive growth, younker empowerment, and equitable development. We stay committed to moving constructively with the Union authorities portion firmly safeguarding the interests and aspirations of Tamil Nadu,” helium said.
Pending funds
The Chief Minister demanded the aboriginal merchandise of the pending funds under Samagra Shiksha Scheme, amounting to ₹3,284 crore, without immoderate information and without linking them to the implementation of the National Education Policy oregon insisting connected the three-language policy.
He urged the Centre to supply the committed Central authorities assistance of ₹2,283.40 crore for the Hogenakkal Phase-III Combined Water Supply Scheme and licence employment procreation activities under VB-G RAM-G for the State government’s agrarian lodging schemes.
Opposition to NEET
He made it wide that Tamil Nadu opposed the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) for admittance to undergraduate aesculapian and dental courses, arsenic its instauration had adversely affected students from agrarian and socio-economically disadvantaged families. He urged the Centre to licence Tamil Nadu to capable each the seats nether the State quota successful the MBBS, BDS, and AYUSH courses solely connected the ground of Class XII marks.
He besides sought the declaration of the ISRO’s Space Manufacturing Hub at Kulasekarapattinam arsenic a National Space Manufacturing Hub, facilitating end-to-end manufacture of propellants and motorboat vehicles, among different products, and helping the federation pat into the planetary abstraction economy. Mr. Vijay also requested the constitution of a second AIIMS in Tamil Nadu at Coimbatore, for which, helium said, the State authorities would springiness the land.
Employment mission
He envisaged a Youth Skill and Employment Mission nether which five lakh youth would annually person stipend-supported internships and industry-linked grooming successful emerging technologies astatine the territory level. He urged the Centre to support the accepted sportfishing rights of Indian fishermen successful the Palk Bay and warrant their information and information and unafraid the merchandise of their sportfishing boats (from Sri Lanka’s custody). Mr. Vijay also sought enhanced enactment for imperishable flood mitigation infrastructure successful coastal cities and a Comprehensive Disaster Management Mission aimed astatine zero casualties.
The State was moving to go a $1.5-trillion system by 2036, reflecting the spot of its diversified system and the productivity of its workforce, and underscoring its committedness to a Developed India by 2047. Tamil Nadu’s accelerated economical maturation besides required the timely improvement of cardinal nationalist road and obstruction corridors, Mr. Vijay said, urging the Centre to authorisation the six-laning of the Chengalpattu-Tiruchi section of GST Road (NH-32); the Tiruchi (Panjapur)-Jeeyapuram-Karur section of NH-81; and the Karur-Coimbatore section of NH-81, too the elevated corridor from Madhavaram to Sholavaram (NH-87) and the high-speed obstruction corridor from Chennai to Kanniyakumari.
He besides requested the Centre to declare The Thirukkural the National Literature. Mr. Vijay called connected Mr. Modi connected the sidelines of the meeting.
