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Three-eggs scheme is visionary: Minister
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It is aimed at improving students’ health
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HELPING HAND: Minister for Social Welfare, Poongothai Aladi Aruna, handing over welfare assistance to a beneficiary in Virudhunagar on Friday. Minister for Backward Classes Welfare K.K.S.S.R. Ramachandran and Collector V. Chandrasekaran look on.
VIRUDHUNAGAR: The serving of three eggs a week to students is a visionary scheme aimed at improving their health, the Minister for Social Welfare, Poongothai Aladi Aruna, has said.
Addressing a function here on Friday, she said that it was among many other schemes of the government that was working for the welfare of the common man.
She also pointed out that it was Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi who raised the amount of benefit under various marriage schemes to Rs. 15,000.
The government had allocated Rs. 100 crore for the welfare of the physically challenged. Besides, the income ceiling had been relaxed so that all mentally challenged people got Rs.500 as monthly maintenance allowance.
A total of 32,000 persons benefited from the scheme, she said.
The Minister handed over benefits worth over Rs. 97 crore to 489 persons on the occasion. The Minister for Backward Classes Welfare, K.K.S.S.R. Ramachandran, said that many schemes implemented by the Department of Rehabilitation wiped the tears of parents who were concerned about the well being of their disabled children.
He said that special grievance redressal camps for the disabled were being held in the district.
The Collector, V. Chandrasekaran, asked the officials to take coordinated efforts for the speedy disposal of petitions seeking assistance. The District Social Welfare Officer, Pushpam, welcomed the gathering.
Special camps
Later, chairing a meeting, Mr. Ramachandran, said that special camps to detect heart ailments among children would be held in the district during the third week of December. Students identified with any such ailment would be eligible for free surgery on a priority basis at government and select private hospitals.
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