CM flagged off 250 buses on 25 Aug costing ₹290 crore. 130 of them are low-floor AC electric buses for Chennai MTC, delivered under the World Bank e-bus transition program. Real fleet electrification on the ground.

As a proud citizen of Tamil Nadu, this is what real execution looks like! No empty declarations—a ₹755 crore budget is locked, and tenders for 4.41 lakh gold rings for our newborns are finalized. It fills me with pride that Joyalukkas won by quoting just 1 paisa for service charges, prioritizing our welfare over profit, with Kalyan matching it for a 70:30 split. Set for a Sept 15 rollout by the TNMSC, this has moved cleanly from a manifesto promise into a fully operational scheme!

State approached the Supreme Court on 3 Aug because Karnataka only released 158 to 550 cusecs instead of the CWRC-mandated 3,500 cusecs. A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta took it up for hearing on 17 Aug. The legal push is active and on record.

Assembly passed an official resolution on 11 Aug urging the Centre to scrap NEET and bring back 12th board marks for MBBS seats. Health Minister Arunraj moved it and the house backed it unanimously. Obviously the Centre still has to sign off for anything to change on paper, but the state legislature has taken the formal step.

Assembly announcement on 10 Aug hiked the Grade A paddy procurement price to ₹2,750/quintal (via a ₹289 state incentive) starting 1 Sept. Sugarcane payout is set to ₹4,000 per tonne by adding a ₹709.50 state bonus over the central price.

The breakfast scheme isn't stopping at primary school anymore. CM confirmed on 16 June that students in classes 6 to 8 will be covered starting 17 Sept, expanding hot morning meals across government middle schools

Pumping money into a scheme doesn't count as keeping a promise if you quietly rewrite the eligibility rules to exclude the very people who need it most. Delta farmers are furious because an unconditional, blanket waiver was promised to small and marginal farmers—yet this rollout came loaded with riders that restrict relief primarily to SHGs under strict caps. When farmer leaders have to point back to the clean waivers of 2006 and 2021 to show how they've been shortchanged, this must be logged as a broken commitment.

Right after taking his oath on May 10th, Tamil Nadu CM Vijay signed his first major government order: providing 200 units of free electricity every two months for domestic consumers who stay under the 500-unit cap. With the state officially committing ₹1,730 crore annually to fund the subsidy, this isn't just an empty political promise—it’s already an active, funded policy.