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Society to emancipate Muslim women in Karur

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State to grant Rs.1 lakh as corpus; Collector to be the chairperson

Status study: The Commissioner of Backward, Most Backward Classes and Denotified Communities, P. Annamalai, left, chairing a review meeting with officials in Karur on Saturday. Collector T.N. Venkatesh, second from left, looks on.

KARUR: A Muslim Women Aid Society would be formed at the district level in Karur district. The Society would strive for uplift of Muslim women, according to the Commissioner of Backward Classes, Most Backward Classes and Denotified Communities P. Annamalai.

Speaking to The Hindu after chairing a review meeting of officials here on Saturday, Mr. Annamalai said that the State Government would help with a grant of Rs.1 lakh as corpus for the society for which the District Collector would be the chairperson. The society would be based at Pallapatti where there was a huge Muslim concentration, Mr. Annamalai added and locals would form the chunk of the society.

Work on establishing the society would get a boost in the next week, he said.

Mr. Annamalai said that through the Tamil Nadu Minorities Corporation, a sum of Rs.75 lakh has been allotted to Karur district for disbursal to members of the minority communities for assistance towards economic development activities. So far, a sum of Rs 42 lakh had been disbursed, he said.

Through the Tamil Nadu Backward Classes Economic Development Corporation, Karur had been sanctioned Rs.1 crore towards extending financial assistance to the members of the Backward Classes in the district. While Rs.10 lakh had already been disbursed to 84 identified beneficiaries, another Rs.7 lakh was ready for disbursal to 32 persons, Mr. Annamalai said.

Soft loans and credits

The amount would be in the form of soft loans and credits for economic development activities. Applications from potential beneficiaries, worth a total assistance of Rs.59 lakh were under process, he added.

The district had been alloted 4,500 bicycles to be distributed free of cost to Plus One and Plus Two students and 597 have already been distributed. Efforts would be made to include the students left out, he added.

Uniforms to inmates of Backward Classes and Most Backward Classes students hostels would be disbursed shortly. While there were 788 BC beneficiaries, there were 318 MBC beneficiaries in the district, Mr. Annamalai said.

He said that a sum of Rs.1.23 crore had been allotted for the district for disbursal as scholarship to the BC students while another Rs.13 lakh had been sanctioned as scholarship for the MBC students.

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