2026 Election Guarantee · 10
Women's Safety & Justice
Zero tolerance for crimes against women — Rani Velu Nachiyar Force, Anjalai Ammal fast-track courts, AI-surveillance public spaces, and free sanitary access.
A Four-Front Safety Architecture
The safety of women in public spaces is not a law-and-order problem that policing alone can solve — it is a systemic failure that requires infrastructure, justice, and institutional accountability working in concert. TVK's women's safety chapter operates on four simultaneous fronts: a dedicated police unit, fast-tracked justice, surveillance infrastructure, and baseline dignity measures in public institutions.
The Rani Velu Nachiyar Force — 5-Minute Emergency Response
The Rani Velu Nachiyar Force is a dedicated women's safety unit drawn from the existing police strength and expanded through targeted recruitment, trained in plainclothes surveillance and crisis response, and equipped with body cameras that provide an evidentiary record of every intervention. Named after India's first queen to take up arms against colonial rule, the force operates in high-footfall public spaces — bus terminals, markets, railway stations, parks — on rotating shifts that ensure 24-hour coverage. A 5-minute emergency response protocol, backed by 24/7 district command centres, means that a panic-button activation triggers a guaranteed physical response, not a logged call.
Anjalai Ammal Fast-Track Courts — 90-Day Justice Guarantee
The Anjalai Ammal Fast-Track Courts ("Anjalai Ammal Athiviraiva Penn Neethi Manrangal") are established in every district with a single mandate: crimes against women must be resolved within 90 days of chargesheet filing. Dedicated investigators, prosecutors, and judicial officers ensure that the case does not move at the pace of the general court backlog. Anonymous reporting channels — accessible via the Vetri TN Super App, toll-free helplines, and drop boxes — lower the threshold for victims to come forward without fear of social retaliation.
Zero Dark Spot Policy — LED Lighting & AI-Integrated CCTV
The Zero Dark Spot Policy eliminates unlit spaces from Tamil Nadu's public landscape. High-intensity LED streetlighting is installed in every identified dark corridor — streets, alleys, bus stops, underpassess — paired with AI-integrated CCTV cameras that feed into real-time command centres. The AI layer flags unusual crowding, stationary individuals in restricted zones, and movement anomalies, triggering alert protocols without requiring human monitoring of every camera feed at every moment. Panic buttons at key public locations — bus stops, railway platforms, ATMs, market areas — connect directly to the district command centre.
Free Sanitary Access & Dedicated Women's Department
Free sanitary pads distributed in all government schools, colleges, and ration shops affirm that menstrual hygiene is a public health necessity, not a luxury, and that no female student should miss school or a woman miss work because she cannot afford basic hygiene products. A dedicated Department for Women, Children and Senior Citizens, placed under direct Chief Minister supervision, coordinates all women-related policy across departments — ensuring that the commitments in this chapter are not siloed in one ministry but enforced across the entire machinery of government.
Related chapters
01
Women's Welfare
Monthly income support, free bus travel, LPG, marriage gold, newborn kits, and dedicated safety measures — Women First.
02
Health for All
₹25 lakh health insurance for every family, world-class treatment access, and a bribe-free Citizen Privilege Card.
03
Education Revolution
Free higher education for farmers' children, interest-free loans up to ₹20 lakh, 500 creative residential schools, and on-time exams.