1. Assistance for fishers to be enhanced: CM Stalin
Fulfilling DMK’s 2021 poll promise, Chief Minister M. K. Stalin who spoke at a fishermen’s conference in Mandapam in Ramanathapuram district, announced that the the financial assistance given to fishermen during the annual fishing ban period would be increased from ₹5,000 to ₹8,000.
Later, he said retrieving the Katchatheevu islet from Sri Lanka alone, would put a permanent end to the problems of fishermen in Tamil Nadu, adding that it had become a routine affair for the Sri Lankan Navy personnel to attack, arrest and remand in judicial custody, Tamil Nadu fishermen, who went into the Palk Bay to fish, under charges of poaching.
