Here are the big stories from Tamil Nadu today

Welcome to the Tamil Nadu Today newsletter, your guide from The Hindu on the major news stories to follow today. Curated and written by Lalitha Ranjani.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin, during a function organised at the Anna Centenary Library in Chennai on Tuesday, launched a special nutrition programme to benefit over 1.11 lakh children, aged between six months and six years, and over 11,900 infants of up to six months.

Over 1.11 lakh children (identified with nutritional deficiency during a survey of 37 lakh across the State) are to be provided with ‘Ready to Use Therapeutic Food’ for 56 days, spanning over eight weeks. Mothers of infants of up to six months would be provided with a kit, which would include iron syrup, dates and nutritional supplements, among other things.

Mr. Stalin also launched the expansion of the flagship Chief Minister’s Breakfast Scheme to more schools, to additionally benefit over 56,000 students. The CM also the distribution of an enhanced monthly pension for transpersons from ₹1,000 to ₹1,500. 

A three-tier security cover has been deployed at the counting centre at the Government College of Engineering in Chithode where the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) used in 238 polling stations during the bypoll to the Erode (East) Assembly constituency have been kept.

After storage of the EVMs in two strong rooms, the rooms were sealed by 5.30 a.m. today, in the presence of District Election Officer and Collector H. Krishnanunni, General Observer Raj Kumar Yadav, Returning Officer for the Constituency K. Sivakumar and representatives of recognised political parties.

A total of 450 police and paramilitary personnel have been deployed in three shifts and the strong rooms are being monitored through 48 surveillance cameras, said Mr. Krishnanunni.

As the last date for linking Aadhaar numbers with the accounts of electricity consumers lapses today, the Minister for Electricity V. Senthilbalaji, who addressed journalists at Tiruchi, made it clear there would be no further extension of the deadline to complete Aadhaar seeding.