Over 3,000 mosques in Tamil Nadu will get 4,900 tonnes of free rice for preparation of gruel during the fasting month of Ramzan starting later this month.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K. Palaniswami has given the approval for the supply of rice to the mosques for its use during the holy month.
The State Government would incur an additional expenditure of `12.60 crore for this allocation, an official release said.
The scheme was started by late Chief Minister Jayalalithaa and has been well-received by the Muslim community, it said.
Subsequently, pleas were made from various quarters for supply of rice this year too.
Palaniswami has directed that the necessary approvals for the supply of rice to various mosques be given and the district collectors have been asked to do the same after verifying documents, the release said.