8. Healthcare and Environment
40 promises · 11 / 40 · 7 Nov 2026
A. World-Class Healthcare for All Families
- Provide a Rs 25 lakh insurance card to every family · Said
- Conduct one free full-body check-up per year for every person · Nothing recorded yet
- Open 5 multispeciality hospitals with 500 beds in backward regions · Said
- Upgrade all Primary Health Centres to the IPHS – 2025 standard · Nothing recorded yet
- Ensure medical staff availability 24*7 in all health centres · Nothing recorded yet
- Establish 3,000 public welfare health centres across the state · Nothing recorded yet
- Keep welfare health centres open from 7:00 AM to 9:00 PM daily · Nothing recorded yet
- Establish free IVF centres in all district hospitals and colleges · Nothing recorded yet
- Provide all IVF treatments free at government hospitals · Nothing recorded yet
- Modernise all rural hospitals with advanced care units · Nothing recorded yet
- Sell medicines at 50 to 90 percent cheaper in government hospitals · Nothing recorded yet
- Establish a statewide Happiness Ecosystem for mental health · Nothing recorded yet
- Open a 10-bed mental health unit at every community hospital · Nothing recorded yet
- Appoint a mental health counsellor in every high school · Nothing recorded yet
- Allocate Rs 500 crore per year for mental healthcare · Nothing recorded yet
- Formulate a Siddha wellness tourism plan for the state · Nothing recorded yet
- Issue government-accredited Siddha rejuvenation certificates · Nothing recorded yet
- Establish Siddha centres in Nilgiris, Kodaikanal, Yercaud, Courtallam · Nothing recorded yet
- Connect Siddha centres with major Siddha tourism towns · Nothing recorded yet
B. Protecting Tamil Nadu's Future: Environmental, Forest, and Climate Change Concerns
- Rs 3,000 crore will be allocated as a climate budget · In the budget
- 38 districts will get integrated disaster management offices · Nothing recorded yet
- 5 coastal cities will get flood prevention infrastructure · First steps
- 38 districts will get dedicated heatwave management offices · Nothing recorded yet
- A new Sustainable Energy Economy Division will be established · Nothing recorded yet
- New funds will support climate protection and carbon control · Nothing recorded yet
- Tamil Nadu forest cover will increase to 33% by 2031 · Formal order
- Sandalwood restoration will involve local tribal communities · Nothing recorded yet
- Native animals will be rehabilitated in the forests · Nothing recorded yet
- Textile effluent discharge in Erode and Tiruppur will be stopped · Nothing recorded yet
- Riverfront parks will be built in Trichy, Madurai, and Tirunelveli · In the budget
- A 50 km-long solar power terminal for tribals will be set up · Nothing recorded yet
- 500 forest personnel will be deployed for night patrol · In the budget
- Rs 10 lakh compensation for deaths caused by wild animals · Formal order
- Rs 5 lakh compensation for injuries caused by wild animals · Nothing recorded yet
- Immediate relief will be provided for crop loss by wild animals · Formal order
- Mangrove forests will be protected as conservation zones · In the budget
- Rs 500 crore will be allocated annually for air pollution control · Nothing recorded yet
- Cooum and Adyar rivers will be restored to control pollution · First steps
- Encroachments in Pallikaranai marshland will be removed · Nothing recorded yet
- The government will restore the Pallikaranai marshland habitat · Nothing recorded yet