Stalin marks DMK govt’s 1st anniversary with 5 big public welfare announcements

NE NEWS SERVICE

CHENNAI, MAY 7

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, M K Stalin made several announcements in the Assembly on Saturday to mark the first year of his government.

He announced a breakfast scheme for school students of Classes 1 to 5, medical check up for school students, schools of excellence and expansion of CM in your constituency scheme.

The CM in your constituency scheme is a public grievance redressal mechanism that will now be expanded across all the constituencies of Tamil Nadu.

In his announcement, he said students from classes I-V will be provided with nutritious breakfast on all working days. He also recalled various achievements of the government in the last one year in various sectors. He reiterated the state’s ‘Dravidian Model’ of development and asserted that it was an all-inclusive one.

He also announced setting up more urban medical facilities to more effectively cater to people’s medical needs.

Earlier, Stalin also paid floral tributes at the memorials of late DMK founder CN Annadurai, and his father and former chief minister M Karunanidhi at the Marina here.

On the occasion of the completion of one year of his tenure as Hon’ble Chief Minister @mkstalin, a chronological book titled ‘One Year of Oya Labor – Carrying the Dreams of a Millionaire Tamils’ has been prepared on behalf of the Department of Mass Communication, the CM’s office wrote in a tweet in Tamil.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Saturday travelled in a state-run Metropolitan Transport Corporation (MTC) bus and interacted with the women passengers.

Travelling in bus number 29 C on Radhakrishnan Salai, he especially spoke to the women passengers and enquired about the free travel facility for them.

Free bus travel for women was a pre-poll promise made by the ruling DMK ahead of the April 2021 Assembly elections in the state.

After a 10-year stint in the opposition, Stalin led his party led alliance to an impressive victory against archrival AIADMK in the 2021 Assembly polls, that also marked his first stint as chief minister. He had earlier served as deputy CM in the 2006-11 Karunanidhi-led DMK government.