DMK Government Achievements 1969-1971

From 1969 to 1971
  • Nationalisation of Transport;
  • Transport Corporations established;
  • Electricity to all the villages;
  • Link roads to all the villages having a population of 1500;
  • Slum Clearance Board;
  • Drinking Water Supply and Drainage Board.
  • Free Eye camps Scheme;
  • Beggars Rehabilitation Scheme;
  • Abolition of Hand-pulled Rickshaws and free distribution of Cycle Rickshaws;
  • Free Concrete Houses for Scheduled Castes and Tribes;
  • Act to provide conferment of ownership of house-sites (Kudiyiruppu Act); Act fixing fair wages to farm labourers;
  • Police Commission – First in India;
  • Separate Ministry for Backward Classes and Scheduled Castes;
  • Constitution of the Backward Classes Commission and increasing the quantum of reservation for Backward Classes to 31 per cent from 25 per cent and for Scheduled Castes to 18 per cent from 16 per cent;
  • Free Education to all upto P.U.C. ;
  • May Day declared as a Holiday with wages;
  • Birthday of “Nabigal Nayagam” declared as a Holiday;