Tamil Nadu: Union Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday chaired a review meeting with all public sector officers in Virudhnagar district of Tamil Nadu. Post the review meeting, the Union Minister announced a project that aims to detect and restrain livestock diseases as well as their spread in human beings and said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Central government was not discriminating in the allocation of funds to Tamil Nadu.
Sitharaman presented cheques for loan assistance to entrepreneurs and women's self-help groups in the state under the Central government's various schemes and visited the products exhibition arranged in 23 venues set up by entrepreneurs who had earlier taken loans from public sector banks to start businesses of their own.
Addressing a press conference, the Union Minister said that she was visiting Virudhnagar for the third time to review the problems in the district. "The authorities in this district are languishing in the enactment of a few projects of the Central government," she stated. The Union Minster informed that steps have been taken to set up a mobile veterinary team with an area of one lakh livestock and to recruit veterinary surgeons in the district as most of the farmers in the district are interested in animal husbandry.
Addressing the former Finance Minister P Chidambaram's criticism of the National Monetisation Pipeline (NMP) launched by the Centre, Sitharaman said that Chidambaram, who is presently condemning the Central government, himself authorised the privatisation of Delhi Railways during his tenure as finance minister.
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