WOMAN heads of poor rural households in the state are likely to be covered in the first phase of distribution of a monthly honorarium of ₹1,000, a key poll promise of the ruling DMK.
Chief Minister MK Stalin is expected to announce the launch of the scheme in the budget for 2023-24. The Participatory Identification of the Poor (PIP) survey completed recently by the Tamil Nadu Corporation for Development of Women, an agency under the rural development and panchayat raj department, identified impoverished households headed by women in rural areas. Its findings have been integrated with the Tamil Nadu Integrated Poverty Portal Service and this will serve as the primary source to select beneficiaries of the scheme, multiple state government sources confirmed.
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