TN CM launches Makkalai Thedi Maruthuvam scheme
The Hindu
The scheme will screen those above 45 years of age and others with infirmities through routine door-to-door check-ups and detect non-communicable diseases; it has been launched in Krishnagiri and 7 other districts
Makkalai Thedi Maruthuvam, the DMK government’s programme to deliver essential healthcare at the doorstep of the people was launched by Chief Minister M.K.Stalin in Samanapalli village in Krishnagiri on Thursday. The scheme will change the mode of preliminary healthcare delivery and will ring in an era where essential medical services are well within the access of the poor, by delivery at their own homes, said Mr. Stalin. He simultaneously declared the Scheme open for seven other districts in the State, in the presence of Health Minister Ma. Subramanian.A crowd comprising farmers, researchers, professors, students, and horticulture enthusiasts thronged the ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (IIHR), Hesaraghatta, Bengaluru, on Friday for the inaugural ceremony of the Triphal Diversity Show which showcased 300 mango, 100 jackfruit, and 100 banana genotypes in collaboration with ICAR-National Research Centre for Banana, Tiruchirappalli.
The State government on Friday constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT), headed by Additional Director-General of Police, Manish Kharbikar of the Economic Offences division of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to probe the alleged multi-crore scam in the government-run Maharshi Valmiki Scheduled Tribes Development Corporation.