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Thalikku Thangam Scheme
March 5 , 2026
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- The Division Bench of the Madras High Court set aside a single judge’s August 12, 2024, order.
- The order had extended the Thalikku Thangam scheme to those earning up to ₹12,000 per month.
- The case relates to the 2011 Moovalur Ramamirtham Ammaiyar Memorial Marriage Assistance Scheme.
- It is popularly known as the Thalikku Thangam scheme and provides gold assistance for young women’s marriage to families earning below ₹6,000 per month.
- It held that the single judge wrongly expanded the scope of the writ petition beyond deciding whether the petitioner earned less than ₹6,000 per month.
- The Court said extending the benefit up to ₹12,000 income amounts to substituting one executive policy for another.
- It ruled that such a direction cannot be issued under Article 226 (writ jurisdiction of High Courts) of the Constitution of India.
- The Bench observed that there is no law mandating the extension of benefits based on the Minimum Wages Act.
- It also noted that the policy itself was not under challenge before the court.
- The judges stated that the gold assistance scheme was discontinued from August 2, 2022.
- It has been restructured as the Moovalur Ramamirtham Ammaiyar Higher Education Assurance Scheme.
- The petitioner’s 2021 application can be considered only if her income was below ₹6,000 per month.
- The Court also noted that extending the scheme could cause a heavy financial burden on the State due to rising gold prices.
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