The Social Welfare Department had issued orders on February 28 for the procurement of sewing machines for beneficiaries across Tamil Nadu, and the machines were purchased on March 2.
Lokesh reiterated that the initiative was executed without discrimination based on caste or religion, aiming solely to empower women in the constituency.
The trust also conducts evening classes for students in the hill villages, provides solar lamps to villages that do not have electricity, and helps to renovate government school buildings.
Speaking to TNIE, Shankar Vaithiyanathan, an alumni of the college, said, “Over 150 students study in the department, but there are only 50 sewing machines.
