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Stalin distributes LPG stoves to children's centres

Staff Reporter

A centre at Teynampet inaugurated

COOKING AIDS: Local Administration Minister M.K. Stalin gives away a pressure cooker and a stove to an employee of a children's centre in Chennai on Friday. Social Welfare Minister Poongothai and Mayor M. Subramanian are in the picture. — Phot o: S. S. Kumar

CHENNAI : Local Administration Minister M. K. Stalin distributed liquified petroleum gas stoves and pressure cookers to children's centres in the city and inaugurated a new centre at Teynampet on Friday.

Some 400 centres in the city would receive stoves with gas connections that would reduce the time taken for cooking, conserve nutrients in food and provide a smoke-free healthy environment for the children, the Minister said.

Describing the scheme as a pioneering initiative to modernise the centres, he said it would be implemented in 1,000 centres across Chennai, Tiruvarur and Tirunelveli districts at a cost of around Rs. 81 lakh. Around Rs. 32 lakh was to be spent for the Chennai centres alone.

The children's centres would also be given colourful posters describing the highlights of the scheme. More than 45,000 such centres across the state provide several benefits to children, aged between two and five, besides adolescents, pregnant women, breast-feeding mothers and pensioners together totalling around 24 lakh beneficiaries.

After distributing the items, Mr. Stalin gave away cheques for over Rs. one lakh to the beneficiaries of the Moovalur Ramamirtham Memorial Marriage Assistance Scheme. Later, he inaugurated the children's centre built from the constituency development fund for Thousand Lights.

Social Welfare Minister Poongothai said 7000 children's centres had been given new utensils in the last financial year. Some 1.76 lakh beneficiaries have been given new plates and tumblers.

Mayor M. Subramanian, Tamil Nadu Social Welfare Board chairperson Salma, Social Welfare Department Secretary N.S. Palaniappan, Project Coordinator of the Integrated Child Development Scheme P. Sivasankaran, and Deputy Mayor R. Sathyabama participated.

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