On the stage of his swearing in ceremony on 13 May 2006, he signed a scheme to implement 1 kg of rice for ₹ 1 and implemented it in 2008, through this, Tamil Nadu had become a hunger-free state. He implemented a ₹ 7,000 crore waiver of farmers cooperative loan. Schemes were implemented to provide free color TVs to every family with ration cards and to provide gas stoves with free gas connection to the poor women who use wood stove-kerosene stove. During his rule, Tamil Nadu is the first state in India to implement the United Nations guidelines on what the government should do for the disabled.