Welcome to En Kelvikku Enna pathil program. Today's program is about welfare card. Farmers card, and welfare card is given by Govt for the welfare of workers. One of our listener has raised has asked her doubt regarding it and Mr. Ponnusamy is clearing the doubt. Lets hear. Caller 1: Before marriage in our house we had farmers card. I knew that. Still I wanted to have welfare card so i registered in it. I am a member in that union. In VO office they are saying either have farmers card or have welfare card. They are asking us to use any one. Do we have to keep only one? Please do ask and let me know. Which one is good for us? In future which one will be useful. Request you to tell me this. Caller 2: I am calling from North Madurai. While getting sign from VO in union card, they are taking farmers card. Whether having farmers card is beneficial or having welfare card is good. I dont know what to do. So please advice me. Ponnusamy: Agriculture workers are those who dont own land but they are fully working in someone else's land for wages and doing agriculture and agriculture based work, and they are fully dependent on agriculture. Farmers welfare scheme was implemented for their welfare and safety. In the year 1982 Tamil Nadu Manual Workers act was introduced to stream line the unorganised workers and give them social safety. Workers who are member in Tamilnadu construction workers union who are doing 53 different kinds of works and 60 kinds of workers who are members in Tamilnadu manual workers welfare board are being benefited due to this. If you are a unorganised worker, you can get benefited by using welfare card. If you are doing agriculture work with dry land and wet land you can get benefited with farmers card. If you dont have dry or wet land and you are not involved in agriculture, then farmers card will not be useful for you. According to your work, it is good to have a welfare card and get benefited. Leone: Thanks to Mr. Ponnusamy for explaining it clearly. We got more information from Mr. Chella Selvakumar from TRLM Union. Farmers card is given to the head of the family alone. But welfare card is given to all the manual workers cum members of the family who are above 18 years. So, since farmers card is given to only to the head of the family, the benefits will be only for him and the who are dependent on him. But if there are 2-4 manual workers in the family, and all the manual workers will get the manual workers card, so family and all the members will get benefited. So rather than getting farmers card, its better to get individual welfare card as manual workers.
