PM Modi launches AIADMK’S Amma scooter scheme for working women

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam’s (AIADMK) ambitious Amma scooter scheme in Chennai remembering the 70th birth anniversary of former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa. According to the scheme, there will be provision of 50 per cent subsidy for working women to buy two-wheelers. It is to be mentioned that J Jayalalithaa, lovingly called as Amma and who entertained the Tamilnadu people during 1960s and 1970s, passed away on December 5, 2016, after suffering from prolonged illness.