Tamil Nadu

Agriculture & Rural Welfare

• Chief Minister’s Crop Loan Waiver Scheme: The Tamil Nadu government announced a full crop loan waiver of up to ₹75,000 for marginal, small, and other farmers (an increase from the earlier ₹50,000 limit).
  • Loan Brackets: Farmers with loans between ₹75,000 and ₹1,00,000 receive a maximum waiver of ₹75,000, while those with loans exceeding ₹1,00,000 receive up to ₹35,000.
  • Total Allocation: The total crop loan waiver stands at ₹6,220 crore, benefiting approximately 13.34 lakh farmers across the State.

Healthcare & Public Health Policies

• Chief Minister’s Elderly Health Insurance Scheme: Tamil Nadu is launching a dedicated health insurance scheme covering 38 lakh senior citizens aged 70 and above.
  • Scope: Offers free medical treatment—including cancer care, cardiac surgeries, organ transplants, and advanced diagnostics—in empanelled government and private hospitals with no income ceiling.
• Key Health Department Initiatives:
  • Peri-Menopausal Care Policy: Tamil Nadu will formulate India’s first policy to provide early identification, basic testing, screening, and counseling for peri-menopausal women at PHCs and medical college hospitals.
  • Bluetooth-Enabled BP Monitors: Introduced in 14 districts during Phase 1 to track blood pressure in 10,000 pregnant women with real-time data transmission.
  • Type 1 Diabetes Free Insulin: Free year-round insulin supply for children under 18 in government hospitals (Outlay: ₹9.94 crore).
  • ‘Irumbu Kanmani’ Scheme: Adolescent anemia prevention drive estimating hemoglobin levels for 16.5 lakh students (Classes VI, IX, XI) in government/aided schools (Outlay: ₹6.37 crore).
  • Universal Rare Genetic Disease Screening: Screening 4.5 lakh newborns across government hospitals for 7 rare genetic conditions (e.g., congenital hypothyroidism, galactosemia) via a hub-and-spoke model.
  • Neo Genesis Units: Establishing intrauterine/womb-like environments for extreme low birth weight infants at IOG Chennai and medical college hospitals in Madurai, Coimbatore, Tirunelveli, Chengalpattu, and Tiruchi (Outlay: ₹16.81 crore).
  • ‘Nalam 360’ Annual Free Check-up: 14 basic annual diagnostic tests for citizens aged 30+ across 1,257 government facilities, alongside Home-Based Diagnostic Services.
  • Health Staff Regularisation: Creating 2,500 permanent staff nurse posts and absorbing contract nurses into regular time-scale pay.

Governance, Revenue Administration & Digital Services

• 3-Tier Revenue Administration: Setting up 12 sub-taluk offices under Deputy Tahsildars to issue essential public certificates locally.
  • Digital Mobility: Providing tablets to 12,466 Village Administrative Officers (VAOs) and 1,253 Revenue Inspectors (RIs) (Outlay: ₹688.63 crore) to streamline field revenue services.
  • Special Job Security Act: Planned legislation to protect Revenue and Disaster Management officials during official duty execution.
• ‘Presence-Less Registration’ for Real Estate: Launched online first-time registration of housing plots and residential multi-storey apartments without requiring physical visits to the Sub-Registrar Office.
  • Security Measures: Features Aadhaar authentication for buyer, seller, and witnesses, a dynamic random 5-color watermark endorsement, and 24-hour document clearance.

National

Constitutional Amendments & State Legislation

• State Renaming — ‘Keralam’: President Droupadi Murmu gave official assent to the Kerala (Alteration of Name) Bill, 2026, modifying the First Schedule of the Constitution under Article 3 to formally rename the State of Kerala to Keralam.

Defence, Security & Foreign Relations

• Honorary General Rank Conferred in Nepal: Indian Army Chief General Dhiraj Seth was conferred the honorary rank of General of the Nepalese Army by Nepal President Ramchandra Paudel in Kathmandu under reciprocal military tradition.