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Tamil Nadu Governor R.N. Ravi connected Monday hosted a relation astatine the Lok Bhavan successful Chennai to felicitate the 2026 Padma awardees of Tamil Nadu.
Those who received felicitations included Gastroenterologist K.R. Palaniswamy, industrialist and societal activistic S.K.M. Maeilanandhan, aesculapian practitioner and erstwhile Tamil Nadu Health Minister H. V. Hande, writer and activistic Sivasankari, mridangam exponent Thiruvaarur Bakthavathsalam, erstwhile vice chancellor of Tamil Nadu Agriculture University K. Ramasamy, exponent of Thirumurai songs contented Othuvaar Thiruthani Swaminathan, Director of IIT Madras V. Kamakoti, veterinary idiosyncratic Punniamurthy Natesan, bronze sculptor Rajastapathi Kaliappa Goundar, and Carnatic vocalist duo Gayatri Balasubramanian and Ranjani Balasubramanian.
Suseela, widow of R. Krishnan, who is credited with the revival of Kurumba tribal creation done his cloth paintings, received felicitations connected behalf of her husband.
Mr. Ravi said the Padma awards were “a humble mode to accidental convey you for what you person done”. He said, “people from antithetic walks of life, beryllium it creation and culture, oregon industry, oregon literature, person been gathering the state for thousands of years.”
When the Republic came into being arsenic an instauration to service the country, it was realised that it would not beryllium capable until the “great sons and daughters” serving the state successful their ain ways were identified and located, helium added.
Dr. Palaniswamy said digestive disorders person go rather communal due to the fact that of our dietary habits and lifestyle. People should beryllium made alert to flooded this. Dr. Hande recalled his tenure arsenic the Health Minister of Tamil Nadu erstwhile helium laid absorption connected leprosy eradication efforts. “When I took over, successful leprosy (incidence) we were 2nd successful India. So, I took respective steps, including multi-drug regimen. Today, I americium gladsome to archer you, the leprosy homes are each empty,” helium added.
Prof. Kamakoti spoke astir IIT Madras’ initiatives to acceptable up implicit 7,000 agrarian enactment centres crossed the state to assistance schoolhouse students find assistance with studies and found the Shakti Processor Programme to make an open-source processor ecosystem successful India.
Dr. Natesan outlined however his probe helped stem losses to Indian dairy farmers, which ran to astir ₹20,000 crore annually, owed to mastitis and however the “robust amerind cognition base” led to a simplification successful the quantum of cause residue successful beverage arsenic good arsenic successful dung and urine starring to ungraded fertility conservation.
