From 1996 to 2001
- Within six months after assuming office, elections for local bodies and cooperatives;
- 33 per cent reservation for women in local bodies – by which 44,143 women including 2 Women Mayors assumed office; of the two Women Mayors one belonged to SC community;
- ‘Madras’ renamed as ‘Chennai’ ;
- Single window system for admission in Engineering and Medical colleges;
- Transparent New Industrial Policy;
- Single window system for obtaining all licenses for starting industries;
- Improved roads, new bridges;
- Concrete streets in villages;
- Desilting of rivers, tanks and canals in an unprecedented scale;
- 24 hour Primary Health Centres;
- For the first time in India, MLA Constituency Development Fund;
- Protected water for all villages;
- 15 per cent reservation in professional courses for rural students;
- Periyar Memorial Samathuvapuram Scheme to eradicate caste discrimination;
- Mini Bus Scheme for Rural areas;
- Dr.Ambedkar Law University – First in India;
- Periyar University in Salem;
- Tamil Virtual University to help world Tamils;
- Urdu Academy;
- Minorities Economic Development Corporation;
- Chennai Film City named after MGR, by changing the name “J.J. Film City”;
- Farmers Market Scheme;
- Varumun Kappom;
- Cattle Protection Scheme;
- Vazhvoli Thittam in Schools;
- 133 feet high Thiruvalluvar Statue in Kanniyakumari;
- Tidel Park in Chennai;
- Computer Training Scheme for Government college students;
- Over two lakh families given house sites in poramboke lands, where they were living in houses constructed;
- Community Certificate, Nativity Certificate, Income Certificate on completion of 10th and 12th standards from the year 1999-2000;
- Scheme for grant of expenses of higher education for first three rank holders in State and District levels in the 10th and 12th standard examinations from the year 1996;
- Bus Terminal at Koyambedu in Chennai – Biggest in Asia;
- Special Scheme for the economic development of Southern districts;
- Women’s Small Trade Loan Scheme with saving scheme;
- Separate Welfare Board for agricultural labour;
- Welfare Boards for unorganised labour;
- Manimandapam for Tamil Scholars and martyrs;
- Supply of eggs with nutritious meal;
- Construction of over 20 dams;
- New buildings for Collectorates in nine districts;
- For the first time Bench of High Court at Madurai; Construction of buildings for it and for courts in various districts;
- Free bus passes for students;
- Anna Marumalarchi Scheme;
- Nammaku Naame Scheme;
- Indigent Family Welfare Scheme;
- Rs.104 crore new buildings for Chennal General Hospital;
- Reappointment of 13,000 welfare workers;
- For the first time 10,000 road workers appointed;
- Nationalisation of the works of Tamil scholars;
- Nine fly overs in Chennai;
- 350 electricity sub-stations (power) at Rs. 1500 crores;
- Pension scheme for contract labour;
- Pension Scheme for transport workers;
- New Medical colleges at Vellore, Tuticorin and Kanniyakumari districts.
- Tamil Virtual University;
