- State of Tamil Nadu has released its “New Policy for Women 2021” on December 29, 2021. This policy will be implemented for more than five years.
- New policy provides for martial arts training for school and college girls.
- It talks about 50 more person-days for all single-headed household and women-headed households under MGNREGS.
- Women will also get 33.3% representation in registered parties.
- State will pay greater attention to getting all children back into school, who belong to poor families and special focus groups such as girls & children from SC-ST communities.
- Scope of Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya will be extended specifically in educationally backward blocks, in order to cover adolescent girls aged up to 19 years of age. This move will help them in completing their school education.
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