A little over three decades after the launch of the Self Help Group Movement for Women in Dharmapuri in 1989, the district became the site for the launch of registration for yet another flagship programme of the DMK government, the Kalaignar Magalir Urimai Thittam (women’s basic income scheme) that provides a monthly financial assistance of ₹1,000 for eligible woman heads of families. Chief Minister M.K. Stalin launched the camps for registration of applications for the scheme, in Thoppur, on Monday, July 24, 2023.
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The scheme of providing monthly rights grant for women beneficiaries is to be rolled out for implementation on September 15, 2023, on Dravidian stalwart C. N. Annadurai’s birth anniversary.