Chennai, Oct. 2 -- Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Joseph Vijay on Friday will launch the expanded 'Vetri Payanam Thittam' scheme in Chennai on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti.

Currently, women are travelling free of cost in ordinary buses operating in metropolitan and urban areas. Now, the scheme has been expanded to include Express, LSS, and Deluxe buses in metropolitan and urban areas, ordinary suburban buses between districts and ordinary buses in hill areas beyond 40 kilometres for women to travel free of cost.

A total of 12,692 buses operating under 7 transport corporations of the Tamil Nadu government have been brought under this scheme.

Through this scheme, around 84.32 lakh women are expected to benefit per day. A video regarding the...