The chief minister MK stalin has deputed 22 ministers to 14 high-infected districts for Covid work
CHENNAI: It’s a new political culture in Tamil Nadu that’s never been seen before. On Thursday, chief minister M K Stalin convened a meeting of all-party representatives in a bid to take them on board in tackling the Covid-19 pandemic.
The same day, AIADMK MLAs were seated alongside ministers on a podium in Coimbatore during a review meeting to combat the pandemic. With Covid numbers surging in the state, political animosities are being set aside in the battle to contain the spread.
Responding to an appreciative tweet for working out a political consensus to fight the pandemic, Stalin on Friday tweeted, “Covid does not discriminate based on political affiliation and, as public servants, we are morally obliged to stand united in this fight. Urge all parties across the country to work together to defeat the pandemic. #OndrinaivomVaa (Let us come together).” The chief minister
Tamil Nadu CM Edappadi K Palaniswami fires on all cylinders: Rs 1,500 for woman family head, free LPG
Tamil Nadu CM Edappadi K Palaniswami fires on all cylinders: Rs 1,500 for woman family head, free LPG
TNN | Updated: Mar 9, 2021, 11:05 IST
Tamil Nadu CM Edappadi K Palaniswami
CHENNAI: Chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami on Monday stepped on the populist gas, promising a monthly honorarium of Rs 1,500 to women heads of families and six domestic LPG cylinders per year free to every household in Tamil Nadu.
He accused DMK president M K Stalin of hijacking this promise from the yet-to-be-released AIADMK manifesto. Stalin had, while unveiling the DMK’s vision statement in Trichy on Sunday, promised Rs 1,000 to the head woman of all families in the state. MNM president Kamal Haasan, too, had charged Stalin with stealing the idea, which he said was his. Stalin retorted that the idea was borrowed from a European model.
CHENNAI/PUDUCHERRY/KOLKATA/GUWAHATI: Increase in wages of daily wage labourers to waiving of jewel loans availed by farmers and making fuel cheaper, many governments in states going to polls – which were announced by the Election Commission on Friday – announced sops ahead of the declaration to woo voters.
In Tamil Nadu, CM Edappadi K Palaniswami stepped up his game plan to cash in on populist schemes and made a slew of announcements on waiver of loans. On Friday, he announced in the assembly that jewel loans up to six sovereigns availed by farmers in co-operative banks would be waived.
Loans availed by women self-help groups (SHGs) through co-operative banks would also be waived. “It will benefit one lakh SHGs that have around 15 lakh members,” he said.
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The AIADMK government in Tamil Nadu has announced that the students of classes 9, 10, and 11 will be promoted to the next class without any examinations. Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami said that the decision was made based on the inputs from medical experts. Experts suggested that the situation is not conducive to conduct exams in view of the pandemic. Taking into consideration the unusual situation being faced by teachers and students, the views of parents besides the opinion of experts, the students of standards: 9, 10 and 11, facing the annual/board exams in 2020-21 education year, are announced as passed without writing the examinations, the chief minister said.