Announcing a slew of schemes suo motu in the Assembly, she announced the creation of the Rs. 3,000-crore Tamil Nadu Fibernet Corporation.

Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Monday informed the Assembly that specially designed wheel chairs would be distributed to 960 persons suffering from spinal cord injuries and diseases.

Making a suo motu statement, she said though the state government had distributed foldable wheel chairs to 911 differently-abled persons in 2013-14, the wheel chairs were not able to meet the special requirements of victims of spinal cord diseases and injuries. “So a specially designed wheel chair would be distributed to them and each wheel chair will cost Rs. 20,000,” Ms. Jayalalithaa said.

The Chief Minister said in the first phase, 30 persons from every district would get the special wheel chair and it would cost the government Rs. 1.92 crore.

Ms. Jayalalithaa also announced Rs. one crore for the construction of a new building for a middle school for deaf in Pudukottai district, which had been functioning in a rented building for the last 23 years.

Ms. Jayalalithaa also announced her government’s decision to provide Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) to all households in Tamil Nadu, making use of the Internet Service Provider (ISP) licence obtained by the Tamil Nadu Arasu Cable TV Corporation.

She said since all the village panchayats in Tamil were to be linked under the Bharatnet scheme, the state government would utilise the ISP licence and provide quality internet service to all households. Besides IPTV will be provided along with hi-speed broadband services and other internet services.

The Chief Minister announced the creation of the Rs. 3,000-crore Tamil Nadu Fibernet Corporation to implement the Central government’s Bharatnet scheme to link village panchayats through Optical Fibre.

She said when Bharatnet scheme was announced she made it clear that in Tamil Nadu the state government would implement it. As per the scheme, 12,524 village panchayats will be linked through optic fibre and people can avail themselves of the schemes of the government.