WelfareContemporary Tamil Nadu
Amma Two-Wheeler scheme for working women
· Chennai
Prime Minister Modi launched a 50 percent subsidy, up to Rs. 25,000, for working women buying scooters, on Jayalalithaa's 70th birth anniversary.
On 24 February 2018, the 70th birth anniversary of J. Jayalalithaa, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Amma Two-Wheeler scheme in Chennai. The scheme gives working women a subsidy of 50 percent, up to Rs. 25,000, towards buying a two-wheeler. Modi handed keys and registration certificates to five beneficiaries in the presence of Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami and Deputy Chief Minister O. Panneerselvam. The scheme had been an AIADMK promise in the 2016 election.
