Madurai to enter Twin Cities Partnership with Camberley for cultural exchange and educational collaboration

The Pongal celebrations successful the past metropolis of Madurai will people the signing of a Twin Cities Partnership with Camberley, a municipality successful the United Kingdom. Mayor of Surrey Heath Louise Ashbery and her delegation volition visit Madurai and Theni during the festival and motion the statement with the Madurai Corporation Commissioner. Camberley is the location municipality of Colonel John Pennycuick, the British technologist who built the Mullaperiyar Dam.

“The statement marks a caller section successful taste exchange, acquisition collaboration, and planetary improvement betwixt the 2 cities. The sojourn of Mayor Councillor Louise Ashbery and her delegation symbolises a renewed enslaved betwixt the 2 regions, rooted successful past and focused connected aboriginal progress,” said Santhana Beeroli, a documentary film-maker, who had earlier traced the memorial of Colonel John Pennycuick and his household members.

Chitra Vijayan, Commissioner of the Madurai Corporation, has already written to Louise Ashbery regarding the Twin Cities Partnership, arsenic Chief Minister M.K. Stalin is keen connected fostering specified agreements. “The Government of Tamil Nadu and the Madurai Corporation invited your connection to research a ceremonial twinning arrangement. We stock your content that specified a concern holds important imaginable for fostering cultural, educational, and economical exchanges,” Ms. Vijayan said successful her letter.

Tamil Nadu’s Minister for Minorities and Non-Resident Tamils Welfare  S.M. Nazar has already visited St. Peter’s Church successful Camberley.

In her response, Louise Ashbery said she was funny successful visiting Tamil Nadu “to larn much astir the historical metropolis of Madurai, research the links betwixt our communities, and summation a deeper knowing of Tamil culture”. “I americium peculiarly keen to larn much astir Colonel John  Pennycuick and the lasting interaction of the Mullaperiyar Dam connected the region,” she added.

Mr. Beeroli said Ms. Ashbery and her delegation would conscionable the Chief Minister connected January 11 successful Chennai earlier travelling to Madurai, wherever they would enactment successful the Pongal celebrations connected January 14 and motion the statement connected January 16. The concern is simply a semipermanent collaboration betwixt cities successful antithetic countries, aimed astatine promoting practice successful acquisition and research, civilization and heritage, tourism, economical development, and municipality governance and sustainability.

Mr. Beeroli noted that 1 of the astir impactful outcomes of the concern would beryllium the instauration of caller world and assistance pathways for Indian students. “Through this initiative, students from Tamil Nadu volition summation entree to U.K. universities, speech programmes, and associated probe opportunities. It volition particularly payment students from Madurai and surrounding regions, offering them planetary vulnerability and entree to high-quality education,” helium said.