Former TN CM Palaniswami calls for special aid to unorganised workers

The leader of the Opposition called for the government to provide ₹2,000 and a special pack of rations to the workers

Leader of Opposition in the Assembly and AIADMK co-coordinator Edappadi K. Palaniswami on Wednesday urged the State government to provide ₹2,000 and give a special pack of rations each to unorganised workers. He recalled that daily wage workers, autorickshaw drivers, hairdressers, handloom and power loom weavers, pavement vendors, workers of fireworks and match industries, and those in the construction and other informal types of activity were given a financial assistance [of ₹1,000 each] and rations last year, when he was the Chief Minister.