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Infection cases from Covid-19 have crossed twenty thousand mark today in Tamil Nadu with 874 people tested positive today. They include 135 returnees from Maharashtra and six from other states. In Chennai, the tally has surged past the 13-thousand mark as 618 of the new cases are reported from the city.
Nine people died of the disease today leading to a total mortality of 154. From hospitals, 765 patients were discharged today after cure, leaving the active caseload at 8776. Meanwhile, the Tamil Nadu Government has announced a special Covid-19 package.
To accelerate new job generation in rural Tamil Nadu, the state government has announced a 300-crore rupees special financial package. It will be rolled out in the nearly 4000 rural panchayats. It is a special scheme devised as part of the World Bank funded scheme for uplifting rural income which is in operation since 2018.
Under the scheme, nearly 32-thousand rural entrepreneurs will be given about 160-crore rupees investment credit. 75 producers organisations with more than 500-members will be given ten lakh rupees each as capital grant. The grant for about 1600 producer organisations with 20-members and 240 other rural industrial clusters will be 1.5 lakh rupees each.
Over 5000 returnees from other states due to the pandemic will be given a long term loan of one lakh rupees each to start new micro ventures. These are aimed at reinvigorating the rural economy that is under distress due to the pandemic-driven lockdown.