| Jayalalithaa clarifies on earlier announcement |
SEEKING VOTES: Chief Minister Jayalalithaa addressing an election meeting at Allinagaram on Wednesday.
THENI: The Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa, on Wednesday clarified that all eligible cardholders could draw 10 kg of rice free and payment would have to be made only for further drawals.
Addressing an election meeting at Allinagaram, she claimed that the media had distorted her earlier announcement, made in Andipatti on Monday, that 10 kg out of the 20 kg a cardholder is eligible for would be supplied free of cost through the public distribution system.
She said that there was no condition that a cardholder should pay for 10 kg and get 10 kg free.
She made it clear that a small family of four members need not pay for rice, if 10 kg sufficed for it for a month. It would be enough if the card was produced at the shop while drawing free rice.
Ms. Jayalalithaa announced that centres to produce biofertilizers, organic pesticides and micronutrients would be started at block and panchayat levels, if the AIADMK were voted back to power. These centres, she said, would strive to fill the gap in supply and demand.
Special schemes
They would create two lakh employment opportunities, with one member from an unemployed family getting work. She said special schemes would be formulated to make Tamil Nadu the production hub of organic farm products.
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