Information minister Rajenthira Balaji announced that transgenders could change their names free of cost without paying for notifying the change in the gazette.
Bookbinders who work for the stationery department would be given a monthly incentive of Rs 500.
“News reels involving Chief minister Jayalalithaa and former chief ministers Annadurai and MGR would be digitized at a cost of Rs 75 lakh.
The preview theatre in MGR film institute would be modernised at a cost of Rs 1.54 crore, Mr Balaji said.
In order to publicise the government schemes across the state and taking into consideration that the ordeal faced by the residents of other parts of the state, government publication sales depots would be opened in Madurai and Tiruchy, he added.