Rs 204 crore for gold for thaali scheme

The scheme provides marriage assistance and gold for daughters of poor parents and widows among others to make ‘thaali.’ Assistance of Rs 25,000 for beneficiaries who have passed Class 10 and Rs 50,000 to those with an undergraduate degree or diploma is also given as part of the scheme. 

The Chief Minister launched the scheme on Wednesday here by giving away gold coins, each weighing 8 gm, to five beneficiaries hailing from her Dr Radhakrishnan Nagar constituency and Kancheepuram, a government release said. 

While 12,500 women who had applied for the scheme after May 23, 2016 will be provided with 8 gm of gold this year, about 1.4 lakh others who had applied earlier will be provided with 4 gm, it added. 

The Chief Minister also handed over a total of 10 collections of medical books health secretary Dr J Radhakrishnan in the Secretariat on Wednesday for the benefit of poor medical students. 

The books donated through the MGR and Amma Best Charitable Trusts were handed over to the Tiruvarur, Coimbatore, Tiruvanamalai and Villupuram medical college hospitals, Coimbatore ESI hospital and Chennai-based Government Multi Super Specialty Hospital. 

The value of books donated by both trusts was Rs 1.50 lakh.