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Public Information Campaign can help reach fruits of development schemes to poor people - Tamilnadu Ministers at Tirukkuvalai campaign.
 
                                                                                    Nagapattinam, July 3, 2006.
 
          The Public Information Campaign under the Right to Information Act launched by the central government will be very useful in reaching the benefits of the union and state governments to the people even in the remotest parts of the country, said Thiru Parithi Ilamvazhuthi, Tamilnadu Minister for Information and Publicity at Thirukkuvalai today. He said that even within a short period of 52 days the Karunanidhi government has launched several development sehemes by way of fulfilling the election promises. In addition plans worth over Rs.2500 crores have been prepared and initiatives have been taken to bring-in several major software projects in Tamilnadu by Wipro and Infosys and telecom manufacturer Motorola.  These projects will help in generating thousands of jobs, he said.
 
     Speaking on the occasion, Tamilnadu Forest minister Thiru N.Selvaraj said that only the Karunanidhi government has boldly waived the principal and interest of the farm loans by cooperatives while in states like Maharashtra where farmers had even committed suicides,  only interest has been waived and the principal has to be repaid in three deferred installments.
 
     Presiding over the function the Tamilnadu minister for Dairy Development Thiru V.Mathivanan said Chief Minister Karunanidhi has launched innovative schemes to benefit the people that is becoming a trend setter for the rest of the country.
 
     The Information Minister distributed loans and assistance worth Rs.Rs.4.9 lakhs to women self help groups, Rs.72,500 to people under warmers' development schemes and Rs.150,000 to three people under the marriage assistance scheme revived by the Karunanidhi government.
 
     As part of the Info Expo at Thirukuvalai today , free health camps - ENT by Royal Pearl Hospital, Tiruchi was held today. A mental health camp by M S Chellamuthu Trust and Research Centre, Madurai will held tomorrow and an eye camp by Arvind Eye Hospital Pondicherry on Wednesday.
 
     During the five day campaign till friday, several union ministers including Thiru T.R.Balu, Smt.Subbulakshmi Jagadeesan, Thiru E V K S Elangovan, Thiru S. Reghupathy and Thiru K.Venkatapathy and Tamilnadu ministers including Thiru N.Suresh Rajan, Thiru Thangam Thennarasu, and Thiru K P P Sami  are scheduled to participate and interact with the public.
 
     The five day campaign will include intensive grass-root level multi media presentations in 30 villages spread over eleven blocks in the district.
 
     The Thirukuvalai campaign, the first such campaign in the country in a predominantly rural area, will be followed by similar ones in districts implementing the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) like in Dindigul (July 9-13), Cuddalore (August 5-9), Pondicherry (August 11-15) and areas where the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) is being implemented like Madurai (July16-20) and  Chennai (August 19-23).
 
     Launched by Press Information Bureau of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, other media units like Field Publicity, Advertising and Visual Publicity, Song and Drama Division, Publications Division, Doordarshan and All India Radio are participating in the Public Information Campaigns. The Tamilnadu Government and Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan under the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports will also play an important role in the campaigns.

 

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