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Fourth Jayalalithaa ministry

15th Ministry of Tamil Nadu
J. Jayalalithaa
Date formed16 May 2011
Date dissolved27 September 2014
People and organisations
Head of stateGovernor Surjit Singh Barnala
Head of governmentJ. Jayalalithaa
Member partiesAIADMK
203 / 234 (87%)
Status in legislatureMajority
Opposition party  DMDK
Opposition leaderVijayakanth
History
Election2011
Outgoing election2006
Legislature term5 Years
Incoming formation14th Tamil Nadu Assembly
Outgoing formation13th Tamil Nadu Assembly
PredecessorFifth Karunanidhi ministry
SuccessorSecond Panneerselvam ministry

The Fourteenth legislative assembly election was held on 13 April 2011 to elect members from 234 constituencies in Tamil Nadu. Results were released on 13 May 2011. Two major parties Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) and All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) faced the election as coalitions of multiple parties with the DMK front consisting of 8 parties and the AIADMK of 11 parties. AIADMK front won the election, winning in 203 constituencies, with the AIADMK party itself winning 150 seats thus securing a simple majority to be able to form the government without the support of its coalition partners.

Cabinet ministers

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S.no Name Constituency Designation Portfolios Party
Chief Minister
1. J. Jayalalithaa Srirangam Chief Minister
  • Public
  • Home
  • Police
  • Indian Administrative Service
  • Indian Police Service
  • Indian Forest Service
  • District Revenue Officers
  • General Administration
 AIADMK
Cabinet Ministers
2. O. Panneerselvam Bodinayakkanur Minister for Finance
  • Finance
  • Planning
  • Legislative Assembly
  • Elections
  • Passports
 AIADMK
3. Edappadi Palaniswami Edappadi Minister for Highways and Minor Ports
  • Highways
  • Minor Ports
4. Sellur K. Raju Madurai West Minister for Co-operation
  • Co-operation
  • Statistics
  • Ex-Servicemen Welfare
5. Natham R. Viswanathan Natham Minister for Electricity, Prohibition and Excise
  • Electricity
  • Non-Conventional Energy Development
  • Prohibition and Excise
  • Molasses
6. K. P. Munusamy Krishnagiri Minister for Municipal Administration, Rural Development and Implementation of Special Programme
  • Municipal Administration
  • Rural Development
  • Panchayats and Panchayat Unions
  • Poverty Alleviation Programmes
  • Rural Indebtedness
  • Urban and Rural Water Supply
7. K.A. Jayapal Nagapattinam Minister for Fisheries
  • Fisheries and Fisheries Development Corporation
8. P. Palaniappan Pappireddipatti Minister for Higher Education
  • Higher Education

including Technical Education

  • Electronics
  • Science and Technology
9. B. Valarmathi Thousand Lights Minister for Social Welfare and Nutritious Noon Meal Programme
  • Social Welfare including Women's and Children's Welfare
  • Orphanages and Correctional Administration
  • Integrated Child Development and Beggar Homes
  • Welfare of the Differently Abled and Social Reforms
  • Nutritious Noon Meal Programme
10. P. Thangamani Kumarapalayam Minister for Industries
  • Industries
  • Steel Control
  • Mines and Minerals
11. N. D. Venkatachalam Perundurai Minister for Revenue
  • Revenue
  • District Revenue Establishment
  • Deputy Collectors
  • Weights and Measures
  • Debt Relief including legislation on Money lending
  • Chits
  • Registration of Companies
12. R. Kamaraj Krishnarayapuram Minister for Food and Civil Supplies
  • Food
  • Civil Supplies
  • Consumer Protection and Price Control
13. S. Sundararaj Paramakudi Minister for Handlooms and Textiles
  • Handlooms and Textiles
14. S. Gokula Indira Anna Nagar Minister for Tourism
  • Tourism
  • Tourism Development Corporation
15. R. Vaithilingam Orathanadu Minister for Housing and Urban Development
  • Housing
  • Rural Housing and Housing Development
  • Slum Clearance Board and Accommodation Control
  • Town Planning
  • Urban Development
  • Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority
16. V. S. Vijay Vellore Minister for Health
  • Health
  • Medical Education
  • Family Welfare
17. K.T. Rajenthra Bhalaji Sivakasi Minister for Information and Special Programme Implementation
  • Information and Publicity
  • Special Programme Implementation including implementation of the Election manifesto
  • Film Technology and Cinematograph Act
  • Stationery and Printing and Government Press
18. V. Moorthy Madavaram Minister for Milk and Dairy Development
  • Milk and Dairy Development
19. B. V. Ramanaa Thiruvallur Minister for Commercial Taxes and Registration
  • Commercial Taxes
  • Registration
  • Stamp Act
20. M.C. Sampath Cuddalore Minister for Environment
  • Environment
  • Pollution Control
21. P. Mohan Sankarapuram Minister for Rural Industries
  • Rural Industries including Cottage Industries and Small Industries
22. N. R. Sivapathi Musiri Minister for School Education and Sports and Youth Welfare, Law, Courts and Prisons
  • School Education
  • Archaeology
  • Sports and Youth Welfare
  • Tamil Official Language and Tamil
  • Culture
  • Law
  • Courts and Prisons
  • Personnel and Administrative Reforms * Prevention of Corruption
23. V. Senthil Balaji Karur Minister for Transport
  • Transport
  • Nationalised Transport
  • Motor Vehicles Act
24. Mukkur N. Subramanian Cheyyar Minister for Information Technology
  • Information Technology
25. N. Subramanian Gandharvakottai Minister for Adi Dravidar and Tribal Welfare
  • Adi Dravidar Welfare
  • Hill Tribes
  • Bonded Labour
26. A. Mohammedjan Ranipet Minister for Backward Classes and Minorities Welfare
  • Backward Classes
  • Most Backward Classes and Denotified * Communities
  • Overseas Indians
  • Refugees & Evacuees
  • Minorities Welfare including Wakf
27. T.K.M. Chinnayya Tambaram Minister for Animal Husbandry
  • Animal Husbandry
28. S. Damodaran Kinathukadavu Minister for Agriculture
  • Agriculture
  • Agricultural Engineering
  • Agro Service Cooperatives
  • Horticulture
  • Sugarcane Cess
  • Sugarcane Development and Waste Land Development
29. K. T. Pachaimal Kanyakumari Minister for Forests
  • Forests and Cinchona
30. K. V. Ramalingam Erode (West) Minister for Public Works
  • Public Works
  • Irrigation including Minor Irrigation
  • Programme Works
31. S. T. Chellapandian Thoothukkudi Minister for Labour
  • Labour
  • Population
  • Employment and Training
  • Newsprint Control
  • Census
  • Urban and Rural Employment
32. M. S. M. Anandan Tiruppur (North) Minister for Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments
  • Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments
33. P. Chendur Pandian Kadayanallur Minister for Khadi and Village Industries
  • Khadi
  • Village Industries

Swearing-in

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Jayalalitha submitted her unanimous election as the leader of ADMK legislature party to Governor Surjit Singh Barnala on 15 May 2011.[1] She was sworn-in as Chief Minister along with 33 other ministers at the Madras University centenary auditorium on 16 May 2011 by the Governor, the same venue she took oath in 1991 when she first became chief minister. She and all other ministers took oath in Tamil. The ceremony was attended by then Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, Communist Party of India (CPI) General Secretary A. B. Bardhan and Rashtriya Lok Dal Chief Ajit Singh among others.[2]

Achievements

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Relocation of assembly building

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In one of the first actions following her re-election as the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, Jayalaitha proceeded to relocate the assembly and secretariat from the newly constructed building back to Fort St. George. The assembly building was constructed during M. Karunanidhi's tenure and costed over 1000 crores of rupees. This move was opposed by Pattali Makkal Katchi,[3] Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and Dravidar Kazhagam.[4] A public interest litigation has been filed in Chennai high court by lawyer G. Krishnamoorthy alleging that the relocation was against public interest and unmindful of the large amount of tax money used for the construction of the new building.[5]

Amma Unavagam

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See also: Amma Unavagam

In February 2013, Jayalalithaa Government inaugurated the state-run Subsidised food programme called Amma Unavagam (Amma Canteen), which was later praised by economist and Nobel laureate Amartya Sen in his book An Uncertain Glory – India and its Contradictions and inspired by many states in India.[6][7][8][9] The Scheme was also lauded by Egypt in 2014.[10][11] Under the scheme, municipal corporations of the state-run canteens serving subsidised food at low prices.[12]

Amma Branded Schemes

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The plenty of populist schemes such as Amma Kudineer (bottled mineral water),[13] 'Amma' Salt,[14] 'Amma' Medical Shops,[15] and 'Amma' Cement were also implemented.[16]

In 2015, The Government launched 'Amma baby care kit' scheme where every mother who gave birth in the government hospital gets 16 types of products.[17][18]

Tamizhaga arasu madikanini thittam

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Tamizhaga arasu madikanini thittam is a scheme in Tamil Nadu to distribute free laptops to students of secondary schools and colleges.[19] The scheme was implemented beginning in September 2011 to fulfill a campaign promise of Chief Minister Jayalalithaa of the AIADMK.[20]

Content Specification
Processor Intel Pentium dual-core processor
Operating system Windows 7 & Linux BOSS 4.0
Size 14-inch display
Weight 2.7 kg
Physical memory 2 GB RAM
HDD 320 GB
Warranty One year

Other Achievements

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The Government also announced the Pension Scheme for Destitute Transgender by which those above ages of 40 could get a monthly pension of Rs.1,000. Jayalalithaa government ensured members of the transgender community could enrol for education and job.[21] Beginning from 2011, every year Jayalalithaa government gave free laptops to students who clear tenth and twelfth standard to impart digital education to rural areas.[22] The government in 2011 decided to give four goats and a cow to each family below poverty line — mixer and grinders and fans for households, 3 sets of free uniforms, school, bags, notebooks, geometry boxes for all children in government schools, and cycles and laptops for Class 11 and 12 students.[23] In 2011 It launched the marriage assistance scheme wherein the female students received 4 gram gold free for use as Thirumangalyam for their marriage and cash assistance up to Rs.50,000 for undergraduate or diploma holding females.[24] There were rampant power cut issues between 2006 and 2011 while AIADMK was in opposition wherein for 10 to 15 hours there was no supply of electricity. However, after Jayalalithaa regained power, between 2011 and 2015, The state government corrected all the discrepancies of previous DMK regime such that the Central Electricity Authority in 2016 said the state is expected to have 11,649 million units of surplus power.[25] Tamil Nadu became among the power surplus states while Jayalalithaa was chief minister in this term.[26][27] In the government ensured the wrongfully usurped property by land grabbing during 2006 to 2011 in the previous DMK regime, had been retrieved and handed over to rightful owners between 2011 and 2015.[28]

Jayalalithaa Government announced in 2012, the Vision 2023 document which embodied a strategic plan for infrastructure development which included raising the per capita income of residents to $10,000 per annum, matching Human Development Index to that of developed countries by 2023, providing high-quality infrastructure all over the State, making Tamil Nadu the knowledge capital and innovation hub of India. This project had three components — Overall Vision Document, Compilation of Project Profile and Road Map. The work on this continued under her supervision until her death.[29] She inaugurated 'Amma health insurance scheme' in 2012.[30]

References

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  1. ^ "Jayalalithaa to be sworn in today". The Hindu. 16 May 2011. Retrieved 16 May 2011.
  2. ^ "Jayalalithaa sworn in Tamil Nadu Chief Minister". The Hindu. 17 May 2011. Retrieved 17 May 2011.
  3. ^ "தலைமைச் செயலகத்தை இடம் மாற்றக் கூடாது: ராமதாஸ்". Dinamani. 17 May 2011. Archived from the original on 6 October 2011. Retrieved 17 May 2011.
  4. ^ "MDMK, Dravida Kazhagam oppose shifting of Assembly". The Hindu. 17 May 2011. Retrieved 17 May 2011.
  5. ^ "PIL plea seeks directive to stop shifting of the Assembly". The Hindu. 17 May 2011. Retrieved 17 May 2011.
  6. ^ Jean Drèze; Amartya Sen (11 August 2013). An Uncertain Glory India and Its Contradictions. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9781400848775.
  7. ^ "In Lockdown, Tamil Nadu's Amma Canteens Rise to the Occasion". The Wire. 25 March 2020.
  8. ^ "Amma canteens and Amartya Sen". The Hindu. 13 August 2013.
  9. ^ "Tamil Nadu's Amma canteen concept catches on in other states". Live Mint. Retrieved 27 March 2017.
  10. ^ "Egypt comes calling at Amma Canteen". The Hindu. 1 June 2014.
  11. ^ "Fame of Amma canteens head to Egypt". India TV. 1 June 2014.
  12. ^ "New budget restaurants to be renamed Amma Unavagam". The Hindu. 24 February 2013.
  13. ^ "Taste Amma mineral water at Rs. 10 in Chennai". The Hindu. 7 September 2013.
  14. ^ "Now comes 'Amma Salt'". The Hindu. 11 June 2014.
  15. ^ "Jaya Launches 'Amma' Medical Shops". Outlook. 26 June 2014.
  16. ^ "Tamil Nadu govt launches 'Amma Cement'". The Hindu. Retrieved 5 January 2015.
  17. ^ "TN CM launches 'Amma baby care Kit' scheme". Business standard. 8 September 2015.
  18. ^ "The many things Amma was: List of schemes implemented by Jayalalithaa". Business standard. 6 December 2016.
  19. ^ "An excellent scheme". The Hindu. 25 September 2011. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
  20. ^ "TN Govt's laptop scheme to be implemented this week". The Hindu. 12 September 2011. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
  21. ^ "Transgenders to get Rs 1,000 monthly pension". The Times of India. 2 August 2012. Retrieved 3 May 2017.
  22. ^ "Free laptop Scheme Tamil Nadu". Startupindiascheme. 14 February 2016. Archived from the original on 17 May 2017. Retrieved 3 May 2017.
  23. ^ Janardhanan, Arun (19 May 2016). "The Jayalalithaa model works: Power to the people and freebies for the poor". The Indian Express. Retrieved 3 May 2017.
  24. ^ "Revised marriage aid scheme launched". The Hindu. 7 June 2011. Retrieved 3 May 2017.
  25. ^ "There is no magic in Tamil Nadu being a power surplus state, Jayalalithaa says". timesofindia. 3 August 2016.
  26. ^ "Tamil Nadu on verge of becoming power surplus state: CM Jayalalithaa". economictimes. 9 September 2015.
  27. ^ "TN govt seek PM's help for evacuation of surplus wind power". indianexpress. 9 July 2016.
  28. ^ "Jayalalithaa's achievements over the last few years". Thehansindia.com. 13 May 2016. Retrieved 3 May 2017.
  29. ^ "'Vision 2023' has achievable components: Jayalalithaa". The Hindu. Retrieved 3 May 2017.
  30. ^ "Chief Minister's comprehensive health insurance scheme launched". The Hindu. 11 January 2012.
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