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Initiatives for the elder people – Tamil Nadu
February 19 , 2020
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- Deputy chief minister O Panneer selvam announced that the government will launch a number of initiatives for the elderly.
- These initiatives will be based on the findings of study by the Nobel laureate Esther Duflo-led research team in the state.
- Earlier, the government, in association with Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Lab (JPAL), launched a survey on issues relating to the elderly.
- As a pilot project, the government has decided to launch Elderly resource centres in two blocks in all 37 districts at a budget of ₹37 lakh.
- The State government led by former chief minister J Jayalalithaa signed an MoU with J-PAL founded by Nobel laureates Abhijit Banerjee and his wife Duflo in November 2014
- To devise an evidence-based approach for policy making and
- To maximise the impact of anti-poverty programmes
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