00:00We begin with the images of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Vijay today
00:04launching the expansion of the Perunthalaivar Kamarajar Breakfast Scheme.
00:09Chief Minister Vijay was seen interacting with and greeting the students.
00:12The extension of the scheme means that middle school students
00:15between classes 5 to 8 also get the benefits of this breakfast scheme.
00:19How did he launch it?
00:21Well, Chief Minister Vijay decided to sit down and have breakfast with the students.
00:25You were seen chatting with them, enjoying what seemed to be a plate of Pongal and Upma
00:31as he was seen there interacting with the children.
00:35Let's also show you some of the other images that came in from this particular inauguration
00:40because a lot of it has gone viral as well.
00:43In another one, you had Chief Minister Vijay also going ahead and serving the students.
00:50Just before we show you this comparison with the former Chief Minister M.K. Stalin,
00:54I just want to get you all of the images that have come in of Chief Minister Vijay himself.
00:58He was seen serving students.
00:59He was seen, in fact, meeting with several of the students in classrooms as well.
01:05So, let's get you all of those images as well.
01:08This is from early this morning at a government school in Tiruvannamur
01:12as he was served breakfast.
01:14He also decided to serve the breakfast to some of the little children there.
01:19And let's get you that footage as well.
01:26This is the moment when, in fact, Chief Minister Vijay entered,
01:29was seen interacting with the children.
01:31And there you have it, was serving them breakfast as well.
01:34This was early in the morning.
01:35And this is how, in fact, he decided to launch the scheme
01:38by symbolically serving the young children their food in their plates.
01:43That's the moment there, after which he sat down and had breakfast with them.
01:46Besides that, there was also a moment when he went classroom by classroom
01:49meeting younger children who have already been beneficiaries of the scheme,
01:53sitting down with them in their classrooms.
01:56So, those are all the images that have come in.
01:59But it's not the first time we've seen these kind of announcements made.
02:02In 2022, the scheme was actually launched for the first time by DMK,
02:06by MK Stalin, and was then, in fact, called the Chief Minister's Breakfast Scheme.
02:11The name has changed.
02:12The scheme has been expanded now.
02:17So, as we get to these two images, remember, like I said,
02:20this is a scheme that already existed.
02:22But there are a few changes that have taken place as well.
02:26And let me give you a sense of what those changes are.
02:29How is this different from what the DMK had already set in motion
02:33as far as this breakfast scheme is concerned?
02:36I'll explain that to you.
02:38Well, for starters, the DMK had, in fact, named this as the
02:41Chief Minister Breakfast Scheme.
02:43Now, under the TVK, there's been a brand makeover, if you will,
02:48where they've decided that the scheme will be named after Kamarajir,
02:51the former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu,
02:53who was hailed for all the reforms that he brought to help children
02:56and to boost attendance in classrooms,
02:58to boost the literacy rate of the state.
03:01Now, in the DMK era, while this was a scheme launched by the DMK,
03:05by the then Chief Minister, Stalin,
03:07it was, in fact, benefiting students of classes 1 to 5.
03:10What the TVK has done is, they've taken the scheme,
03:13they've said this is a scheme that works,
03:15and they've decided to expand the scope of it.
03:17So now, from classes 6 to 8 as well,
03:20what's commonly referred to as middle school,
03:21they will also get the benefit of, in fact,
03:25this particular scheme in government schools across the state.
03:29Over 200 crores has, in fact, been allocated
03:32for this particular project.
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