# Fourth Jayalalithaa ministry

The Fourteenth legislative assembly election was held on 13 April 2011 to elect members from 234 constituencies in Tamil Nadu. Results were released on 13 May 2011. Two major parties Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) and All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) faced the election as coalitions of multiple parties with the DMK front consisting of 8 parties and the AIADMK of 11 parties. AIADMK front won the election, winning in 203 constituencies, with the AIADMK party itself winning 150 seats thus securing a simple majority to be able to form the government without the support of its coalition partners.

## Cabinet ministers

| S.no | Name | Constituency | Designation | Portfolios | Party |
| Chief Minister |||||||
| 1. | J. Jayalalithaa | Srirangam | Chief Minister | Public Home Police Indian Administrative Service Indian Police Service Indian Forest Service District Revenue Officers General Administration | AIADMK |
| Cabinet Ministers |||||||
| 2. | O. Panneerselvam | Bodinayakkanur | Minister for Finance | Finance Planning Legislative Assembly Elections Passports | AIADMK |
| 3. | Edappadi Palaniswami | Edappadi | Minister for Highways and Minor Ports | Highways Minor Ports | AIADMK |
| 4. | Sellur K. Raju | Madurai West | Minister for Co-operation | Co-operation Statistics Ex-Servicemen Welfare | AIADMK |
| 5. | Natham R. Viswanathan | Natham | Minister for Electricity, Prohibition and Excise | Electricity Non-Conventional Energy Development Prohibition and Excise Molasses | AIADMK |
| 6. | K. P. Munusamy | Krishnagiri | Minister for Municipal Administration, Rural Development and Implementation of Special Programme | Municipal Administration Rural Development Panchayats and Panchayat Unions Poverty Alleviation Programmes Rural Indebtedness Urban and Rural Water Supply | AIADMK |
| 7. | K.A. Jayapal | Nagapattinam | Minister for Fisheries | Fisheries and Fisheries Development Corporation | AIADMK |
| 8. | P. Palaniappan | Pappireddipatti | Minister for Higher Education | Higher Education including Technical Education Electronics Science and Technology | AIADMK |
| 9. | B. Valarmathi | Thousand Lights | Minister for Social Welfare and Nutritious Noon Meal Programme | Social Welfare including Women's and Children's Welfare Orphanages and Correctional Administration Integrated Child Development and Beggar Homes Welfare of the Differently Abled and Social Reforms Nutritious Noon Meal Programme | AIADMK |
| 10. | P. Thangamani | Kumarapalayam | Minister for Industries | Industries Steel Control Mines and Minerals | AIADMK |
| 11. | N. D. Venkatachalam | Perundurai | Minister for Revenue | Revenue District Revenue Establishment Deputy Collectors Weights and Measures Debt Relief including legislation on Money lending Chits Registration of Companies | AIADMK |
| 12. | R. Kamaraj | Krishnarayapuram | Minister for Food and Civil Supplies | Food Civil Supplies Consumer Protection and Price Control | AIADMK |
| 13. | S. Sundararaj | Paramakudi | Minister for Handlooms and Textiles | Handlooms and Textiles | AIADMK |
| 14. | S. Gokula Indira | Anna Nagar | Minister for Tourism | Tourism Tourism Development Corporation | AIADMK |
| 15. | R. Vaithilingam | Orathanadu | Minister for Housing and Urban Development | Housing Rural Housing and Housing Development Slum Clearance Board and Accommodation Control Town Planning Urban Development Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority | AIADMK |
| 16. | V. S. Vijay | Vellore | Minister for Health | Health Medical Education Family Welfare | AIADMK |
| 17. | K.T. Rajenthra Bhalaji | Sivakasi | Minister for Information and Special Programme Implementation | Information and Publicity Special Programme Implementation including implementation of the Election manifesto Film Technology and Cinematograph Act Stationery and Printing and Government Press | AIADMK |
| 18. | V. Moorthy | Madavaram | Minister for Milk and Dairy Development | Milk and Dairy Development | AIADMK |
| 19. | B. V. Ramanaa | Thiruvallur | Minister for Commercial Taxes and Registration | Commercial Taxes Registration Stamp Act | AIADMK |
| 20. | M.C. Sampath | Cuddalore | Minister for Environment | Environment Pollution Control | AIADMK |
| 21. | P. Mohan | Sankarapuram | Minister for Rural Industries | Rural Industries including Cottage Industries and Small Industries | AIADMK |
| 22. | N. R. Sivapathi | Musiri | Minister for School Education and Sports and Youth Welfare, Law, Courts and Prisons | School Education Archaeology Sports and Youth Welfare Tamil Official Language and Tamil Culture Law Courts and Prisons Personnel and Administrative Reforms * Prevention of Corruption | AIADMK |
| 23. | V. Senthil Balaji | Karur | Minister for Transport | Transport Nationalised Transport Motor Vehicles Act | AIADMK |
| 24. | Mukkur N. Subramanian | Cheyyar | Minister for Information Technology | Information Technology | AIADMK |
| 25. | N. Subramanian | Gandharvakottai | Minister for Adi Dravidar and Tribal Welfare | Adi Dravidar Welfare Hill Tribes Bonded Labour | AIADMK |
| 26. | A. Mohammedjan | Ranipet | Minister for Backward Classes and Minorities Welfare | Backward Classes Most Backward Classes and Denotified * Communities Overseas Indians Refugees & Evacuees Minorities Welfare including Wakf | AIADMK |
| 27. | T.K.M. Chinnayya | Tambaram | Minister for Animal Husbandry | Animal Husbandry | AIADMK |
| 28. | S. Damodaran | Kinathukadavu | Minister for Agriculture | Agriculture Agricultural Engineering Agro Service Cooperatives Horticulture Sugarcane Cess Sugarcane Development and Waste Land Development | AIADMK |
| 29. | K. T. Pachaimal | Kanyakumari | Minister for Forests | Forests and Cinchona | AIADMK |
| 30. | K. V. Ramalingam | Erode (West) | Minister for Public Works | Public Works Irrigation including Minor Irrigation Programme Works | AIADMK |
| 31. | S. T. Chellapandian | Thoothukkudi | Minister for Labour | Labour Population Employment and Training Newsprint Control Census Urban and Rural Employment | AIADMK |
| 32. | M. S. M. Anandan | Tiruppur (North) | Minister for Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments | Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments | AIADMK |
| 33. | P. Chendur Pandian | Kadayanallur | Minister for Khadi and Village Industries | Khadi Village Industries | AIADMK |

## Swearing-in

Jayalalitha submitted her unanimous election as the leader of ADMK legislature party to Governor Surjit Singh Barnala on 15 May 2011. She was sworn-in as Chief Minister along with 33 other ministers at the Madras University centenary auditorium on 16 May 2011 by the Governor, the same venue she took oath in 1991 when she first became chief minister. She and all other ministers took oath in Tamil. The ceremony was attended by then Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, Communist Party of India (CPI) General Secretary A. B. Bardhan and Rashtriya Lok Dal Chief Ajit Singh among others.

## Achievements
### Relocation of assembly building

In one of the first actions following her re-election as the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, Jayalaitha proceeded to relocate the assembly and secretariat from the newly constructed building back to Fort St. George. The assembly building was constructed during M. Karunanidhi's tenure and costed over 1000 crores of rupees. This move was opposed by Pattali Makkal Katchi, Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and Dravidar Kazhagam. A public interest litigation has been filed in Chennai high court by lawyer G. Krishnamoorthy alleging that the relocation was against public interest and unmindful of the large amount of tax money used for the construction of the new building.

### Amma Unavagam

In February 2013, Jayalalithaa Government inaugurated the state-run Subsidised food programme called Amma Unavagam (Amma Canteen), which was later praised by economist and Nobel laureate Amartya Sen in his book An Uncertain Glory – India and its Contradictions and inspired by many states in India. The Scheme was also lauded by Egypt in 2014. Under the scheme, municipal corporations of the state-run canteens serving subsidised food at low prices.

### Amma Branded Schemes

The plenty of populist schemes such as Amma Kudineer (bottled mineral water), 'Amma' Salt, 'Amma' Medical Shops, and 'Amma' Cement were also implemented.
In 2015, The Government launched 'Amma baby care kit' scheme where every mother who gave birth in the government hospital gets 16 types of products.

### Tamizhaga arasu madikanini thittam

Tamizhaga arasu madikanini thittam is a scheme in Tamil Nadu to distribute free laptops to students of secondary schools and colleges. The scheme was implemented beginning in September 2011 to fulfill a campaign promise of Chief Minister Jayalalithaa of the AIADMK.
| Content | Specification |
| Processor | Intel Pentium dual-core processor |
| Operating system | Windows 7 & Linux BOSS 4.0 |
| Size | 14-inch display |
| Weight | 2.7 kg |
| Physical memory | 2 GB RAM |
| HDD | 320 GB |
| Warranty | One year |

### Other Achievements

The Government also announced the Pension Scheme for Destitute Transgender by which those above ages of 40 could get a monthly pension of Rs.1,000. Jayalalithaa government ensured members of the transgender community could enrol for education and job. Beginning from 2011, every year Jayalalithaa government gave free laptops to students who clear tenth and twelfth standard to impart digital education to rural areas. The government in 2011 decided to give four goats and a cow to each family below poverty line — mixer and grinders and fans for households, 3 sets of free uniforms, school, bags, notebooks, geometry boxes for all children in government schools, and cycles and laptops for Class 11 and 12 students. In 2011 It launched the marriage assistance scheme wherein the female students received 4 gram gold free for use as Thirumangalyam for their marriage and cash assistance up to Rs.50,000 for undergraduate or diploma holding females. There were rampant power cut issues between 2006 and 2011 while AIADMK was in opposition wherein for 10 to 15 hours there was no supply of electricity. However, after Jayalalithaa regained power, between 2011 and 2015, The state government corrected all the discrepancies of previous DMK regime such that the Central Electricity Authority in 2016 said the state is expected to have 11,649 million units of surplus power. Tamil Nadu became among the power surplus states while Jayalalithaa was chief minister in this term. In the government ensured the wrongfully usurped property by land grabbing during 2006 to 2011 in the previous DMK regime, had been retrieved and handed over to rightful owners between 2011 and 2015.
Jayalalithaa Government announced in 2012, the Vision 2023 document which embodied a strategic plan for infrastructure development which included raising the per capita income of residents to $10,000 per annum, matching Human Development Index to that of developed countries by 2023, providing high-quality infrastructure all over the State, making Tamil Nadu the knowledge capital and innovation hub of India. This project had three components — Overall Vision Document, Compilation of Project Profile and Road Map. The work on this continued under her supervision until her death. She inaugurated 'Amma health insurance scheme' in 2012.