Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin, on Tuesday (September 16, 2025), launched a scholarship programme to benefit 2,000 Muslim students annually to help pursue their higher education. A scholarship of ₹10,000 is to be provided to each of the beneficiaries through the Tamil Nadu Waqf Board to pursue undergraduate and post-graduate programmes.

In another event, Mr. Stalin virtually inaugurated four industrial estates established by the Tamil Nadu Small Industries Development Corporation (SIDCO) at Kaverirajapuram in Tiruvallur district, Muthur in Tirunelveli district, Kadambadi in Chengalpattu district and Korukkai in Tiruvarur district at a total cost of ₹67 crore. He also inaugurated two private industrial estates — a new one at Maruthadu in Cuddalore district and a renovated estate in Kittampalayam in Coimbatore district.

The Chief Minister also virtually inaugurated a common effluent treatment plant at Thirumudivakkam in Kancheepuram district and a common facility centre in the food processing cluster in Thiruchencode in Namakkal district. Ministers M.R.K. Panneerselvam, T.M. Anbarasan and S.M. Nasar; MP K. Navaskani, Chief Secretary N.Muruganandam and senior officials were also present.

Earlier in the day, Mr. Stalin led leaders in paying tributes to the portrait of late freedom fighter S.S. Ramasamy Padayatchi in Guindy in Chennai.