DMK regime presents Finances 2025-26 in Tamil Nadu Meeting

Thenarasu introduced that work has been expedited to arrange a brand new airport at Parandur close to Chennai.

Additional, the minister mentioned that underneath the ‘Samagra Shiksha’ scheme, the state authorities has been efficiently implementing varied pupil welfare schemes for the previous seven years.

“Notably, initiatives such because the ‘Ennum Ezhuthum Thittam’ to make sure foundational literacy, particular schooling for differently-abled youngsters, transport allowances for college kids from distant areas, wage for lecturers, steering for larger schooling to form college students’ future, artwork festivals to nurture distinctive skills, instructional excursions and infrastructure growth, together with web amenities in faculties, are in progress.

Nonetheless, the union authorities has withheld the permitted quantity of Rs 2,152 crore to Tamil Nadu, citing the State’s non-acceptance of the Union authorities’s New Training Coverage, which incorporates the three-language coverage. Regardless of this, preserving in thoughts the welfare of scholars, the state authorities has allotted funds, together with salaries of lecturers, from its personal sources to make sure that the schooling of presidency college college students stays unaffected, even within the slightest means,” he mentioned.

“Even at this crucial juncture, the folks of Tamil Nadu have wholeheartedly rallied behind the chief minister for upholding the dignity of the State by standing agency on the bilingual coverage, even at the price of foregoing two thousand crore rupees,” the minister mentioned.

A sum of Rs 3,500 crore for 1 lakh new homes underneath the Kalaignar Kanavu Illam housing scheme, Rs 2,200 crore for the CM’s Rural Roads Growth Scheme, Rs 88 crore for ‘sponge parks’ in Chennai, which can assist groundwater-recharge and struggle in opposition to flooding had been among the many allocations.