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A Chennai-based organisation, moving for the payment of the Scheduled Castes, has appealed to the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam to include, successful its 2026 predetermination manifesto, the contented of amended attraction of the Ambedkar Memorial successful Chennai.
In its charter of demands submitted to the enactment recently, the body, People’s Educational Trust, which encompasses Dr. Ambedkar Academy, said that though a ample fig of radical visited the memorial connected the commencement and decease anniversaries of the person (April 14 and December 6), the spot was suffering from the deficiency of amenities.
Referring to a quality point published successful the online variation of The Hindu on the memorial connected December 24, 2025, the managing trustee of the Trust, C. Chellappan, who is simply a erstwhile Member of the National Commission for the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes, said a room and an auditorium could beryllium established connected the field of the adjoining Tholkappia Poonga. If this was not possible, they could beryllium established connected the premises of the memorial itself.
Calling for the installation of a immense statue of Ambedkar, the Trust said this should beryllium “as majestic as” those successful Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. The yearly allocation for a scheme, named after Ambedkar and meant to promote SC/ST entrepreneurs, should beryllium accrued from ₹100 crore to ₹500 crore.
The assemblage besides called for the hold of the ‘Samuthuvapuram’ agrarian lodging strategy to each sections of society; the enactment of laws to supply for preservation successful promotion and enactment inter-caste marriages; amendments to heighten the implementation of the Special Component Plan for the SCs; and the retrieval of Panchami land assigned to the SCs during the British authorities to empower them economically and present nether encroachment.
The Trust besides wanted the presumption of notation of the Tamil Nadu State Commission for SCs/STs expanded to screen the problems being faced by these communities successful social, educational, and economical progress.
