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Pudhumai Penn pays eligible female students ₹1,000 per month by DBT while they pursue approved higher education, if they studied Classes 6–12 continuously in Tamil Nadu government or government-aided Tamil-medium schools.
Pudhumai Penn provides female students who studied Classes 6–12 continuously in government or government-aided Tamil-medium schools and enrolled in undergraduate, diploma or ITI study ₹1,000 per month as direct benefit transfer. The Tamil Nadu Institute of Labour Studies lists the application route, documents and the institution's verification role. The 2025–26 Tamil Nadu IT Policy Note says the benefit is not restricted by economic status, caste or religion; the TILS application checklist nevertheless asks for income and community certificates as documents.
Scheme status: unknown. Application window: unknown.
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Monthly financial assistance paid to each eligible beneficiary by DBT while pursuing an eligible course.
₹1,000 (Monthly)
₹1,000/month per beneficiary by DBT; eligible female students with continuous Classes 6–12 in government/government-aided Tamil-medium schools; UMIS application; six listed documents; institute verifies and forwards
Schemes — Tamil Nadu Institute of Labour Studies (Pudhumai Penn Scheme entry)Document date: not stated; reviewed: 2026-10-04.
Official page body fetched directly with curl and the scheme section reviewed in full.
Undergraduate, diploma and ITI courses; ₹1,000 monthly DBT; benefit irrespective of economic status, caste or religion; paperless UMIS and appeals
Tamil Nadu IT Policy Note 2025–26, pages 78–79Document date: not stated; reviewed: 2026-10-04.
Official PDF downloaded and text extracted with pdftotext; scheme text reviewed directly. The note reports cumulative beneficiaries as of March 2025, not a current application window.
Scheme-specific online application information
Pudhumai Penn scheme pageDocument date: not stated; reviewed: 2026-10-04.
Official Tamil Nadu Social Welfare page linked from the TILS entry; direct URL returned HTTP 200. UMIS itself did not respond during direct fetch.
The Tamil Nadu sources state ₹1,000 per month per eligible beneficiary by direct benefit transfer.
It lists a school study certificate, community certificate, income certificate, bank passbook, Aadhaar card and admission proof. The policy note says the benefit is irrespective of income/caste; those certificates are listed as application documents, not eligibility cutoffs.