Over half crore people got benefit of Makkalai Thedi Maruthuvam:  Ma Subramanian

R ARIVANANTHAM
CHENNAI, MARCH 26

Over half a crore people were covered so far under Makkalai Thedi Maruthuvam, a flagship scheme to reach out to the doorsteps of poor and downtrodden. The government is targeting to reach out to 1 crore people under this scheme during the current year, said Medical and Family Health Minister Ma Subramanian here on Friday.

The scheme which was inaugurated by Chief Minister M K Stalin on August 5 last year benefitted over 56,26,000 people across the state. Over 15,000 aged people were screened at home, said Ma Subramanian.

ALERT என்கிற NGO அமைப்பின் சார்பில் விருது வழங்கும் நிகழ்வில் பங்கேற்று விருதுகள் வழங்கப்பட்டது. @alertngo #Masubramanian #TNHealthminister #ALERTNGO pic.twitter.com/W3vowLa0Es

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The Minister distributed 5th edition of the Alert Being Awards to Super Heroes who had volunteered to save accident victims by the Alert NGO.

Besides this, another scheme ‘Innuyir Kappom’ launched on December 18, 2021 with the Public-Private-Partnership also yielding good results. So far 34,000 people who injured in road accidents were saved. A sum of Rs 30-crore has been spent for this scheme. After launching this scheme, the number of accident deaths reduced by one-third compared to January 2021, the minister added.

Incidentally, the Central govt is planning to replicate this scheme all over the country.

The Minister also received the Alert Being special award on behalf of the Health and Family Welfare Department of Government of Tamil Nadu.

• Under this flagship scheme launched by Chief Minister Stalin on August 5, 2021, over 15,000 people screened at home for various non-communicable diseases.
• The Minister distributed 5th edition of the Alert Being Awards to Super Heroes who had volunteered to save accident victims

Later, the Principal Secretary (Health) J Radhakrishnan also distributed Alert Being Award to few Good Samaritans, who have contributed to the society by saving lives even during the peak of Covid pandemic.

List of Awardees – Alert Being Awards 2021:

The ALERT Being Awards under the Individual category was presented to 7 real-life heroes who had all put their life at risk to save others. The Category of Going Beyond Call of Duty was presented to A super Cop from Chennai Rajeshwari and Vanaja from Mannargudi.

Under Organisation Category: Street Vision Social and Charitable Trust, Aishwaryam Trust and Soulfree received the awards. Under Special Category, Caritas India and Ford Business Solutions, India received the Award.  The ALERT Being Icon award for the organization was presented to the Infosys Foundation.

The distinguished members of the ABA Jury were  Veena Kumaravel, Founder, Natural Group of Salons:  Md Shakeel Akhtar, IPS, Director General of Police (DGP), CB-CID; Nawabzada Mohammed Asif Ali, Heir Apparent & Dewan to the Prince of Arcot; Dr JS Rajkumar, Chairman and Chief Surgeon, Lifeline Hospitals; and  Sujith Kumar, Founder, Maatram Foundation.

V M Muralidharan, Chairman, ALERT said, “We are grateful to our Hon’ble CM Thiru Mu Ka Stalin, for launching the noble and much needed ‘NammaiKakkum 48’ scheme, to provide emergency ‘life saving’ support to helpless accident victims, free of cost and without any time delay. We, at ALERT NGO, extend our support to our government, in the implementation of the “NammaiKaakkum 48” scheme, through effective collaboration, with our experience in ‘life saving’ mission, over the last 15 years.”

Speaking on the occasion Rajesh R Trivedi, Co-Founder & Managing Trustee, ALERT said, “We received 134 nominations, each of them incredible stories of grit, of which 112 were from Tamil Nadu and the remaining from rest of India.”