Cash assistance of Rs 1,000 for all those families with ration cards eligible to get rice;
Free supplies of ration, cash assistance of Rs 1,000 are some of the measures that have been announced by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K. Palaniswami on Tuesday for the benefit of poor to tide over their livelihood problems owing to the lockdown of the state till March 31 to contain the spread of Coronavirus. Announcing this in the Assembly, Palaniswami said the government will implement the welfare measures at an outlay of Rs 3,280 crore. The welfare measures are:
Cash assistance of Rs 1,000 for all those families with ration cards eligible to get rice;
Free supply of rice, oil, sugar, lentils in April for all ration card holders. Those who do not want the free supply can opt out by logging on to the website;
