Modi woos Tamil women with Amma two-wheeler scheme
chennai — Wooing the people of Tamil Nadu particularly women, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said the state got higher funds allocations and projects with huge investments under his National Democratic Alliance government.
However in his 15-minute speech, he avoided any reference to the strong demand from state parties for setting up of a Cauvery Management Board, as directed by the Supreme Court to which Chief Minister K. Palaniswami made a reference in his welcome address at a function here.
Modi was here to launch the Tamil Nadu government’s subsidised scooter scheme called Amma Two Wheeler Scheme for working women as a part of 70th birth anniversary of former Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa. He also planted a tree sapling and inaugurated the plan to plant 7 million tree saplings as a part of Jayalalithaa birth anniversary celebrations in the state.
Noting that 950,000 women in Tamil Nadu benefitted out of the Central government’s free cooking gas scheme, he said that over Rs240 billion worth of projects are implemented by the central government in Tamil Nadu after BJP came to power at the centre. The subsidised two-wheeler scheme is part of AIADMK’s 2016 poll promise. Under the scheme, the government will provide 50 per cent subsidy subject to a maximum of Rs25,000 for the purchase of two-wheelers by working women. —