FIDF in Tamil Nadu

• FIDF (Fisheries and Aquaculture Infrastructure Development Fund) is a dedicated concessional-finance fund of the Department of Fisheries, Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying, operationalised from FY 2018-19 with a corpus of ₹7,522.48 crore.
• Relevance: case study for Blue Economy, fishing-harbour modernisation, cooperative federalism (Centre–State–NABARD tripartite MoAs), and GS-III (agriculture/economy/infrastructure).