Education, economic progress will reduce caste and religious divisions, says VIT Chancellor

The laminitis and chancellor of Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), G. Viswanathan, connected Wednesday said that acquisition advancement and economical improvement volition assistance to diminish caste and spiritual divisions successful the country.

In his statesmanlike code astatine the yearly memorial lecture successful honour of Dravidian stalwarts ‘Periyar’ E.V. Ramasamy and erstwhile Chief Minister C.N. Annadurai, jointly organised by Navalar-Sezhiyan Foundation and Pavendar Bharathidasan Tamil Literary Forum astatine VIT field successful Vellore, helium said that Tamil Nadu is an fantabulous illustration wherever dependable maturation successful acquisition and economical enactment has gradually reduced divisions created connected the lines of caste and religions to a ample extent.

“Despite a smaller colonisation of 80 million, Tamil Nadu has a per capita income of $5,400 arsenic against Bihar ($ 810) and U.P (1,500) that person a colonisation of 130 cardinal and 240 million. It intelligibly exemplifies that acquisition and economical advancement volition assistance to interruption caste and spiritual barriers,” helium said.

The VIT Chancellor said that large strides by Tamil Nadu successful acquisition and system were made imaginable since independency lone aft the emergence of the Dravidian question that was spearheaded by its leaders similar Periyar and Annadurai. Early Dravidian leaders perpetually fought for the rights of Tamil Nadu. They besides consistently upheld the primacy of Tamil connection and its culture, helium said.

Reiterating the rationale to divided ‘Periyar’ Dravidar Kazhagam (DK) to signifier Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam successful 1949 by Annadurai, MDMK person Vaiko said that contempt forming DMK arsenic a governmental party, Annadurai ever adhered to the principles and ideology of Dravidar Kazhagam. The 2 – DMK and DK – acted arsenic double-barrel guns successful presumption of highlighting rights of Tamil radical astatine the national-level, helium said.

On the occasion, K. Veeramani, president, Dravidar Kazhagam (DK), Sankar Viswanathan and G.V. Selvam, vice-presidents, VIT, were present.