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The Tamil Nadu government, nether Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay, connected Thursday (May 14, 2026) announced that it needed clip to “restructure” the Kalaignar Magalir Urimai Thogai programme. The monthly assistance for women beneficiaries owed for the period of May would beryllium credited into their slope accounts soon, an authoritative merchandise stated.
During the predetermination campaign, Mr. Vijay had announced that aft his party, the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK), was elected to power, it would, done the ‘Madhippumigu Magalir Thittam’, supply a sum of ₹2,500 arsenic monthly assistance to “all women up to 60 years of age, who are heads of families.”
However, helium had clarified that families with employees of Union and State governments would not beryllium eligible for the grant. “By doing so, much fig of women volition get to benefit,” Mr. Vijay had announced during a enactment gathering successful Mamallapuram successful March this year. At present, the assistance is ₹1,000 a period to beneficiaries, nether the ‘Kalaignar Magalir Urimai Thogai’ programme launched by the erstwhile DMK government.
The programme was initiated to supply the monthly rights assistance to women heads of families, intending to “recognise the hard enactment of women who enactment tirelessly throughout their lives for their families.”
Women beneficiaries who are supra 21 years of property from families earning an yearly income below ₹2.5 lakh are among those eligible to payment from the programme. Only the pistillate caput of the household per household (family paper holders) is eligible to person the grant.
