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SKM Maeilanandhan, Executive Chairman of the Erode-based SKM Group of Companies, has been selected for the Padma Bhushan 2026 for his contributions to spiritual education, nationalist health, and societal welfare.
Born connected June 18, 1945, into a mediocre cultivation household successful Erode district, Mr. Maeilanandhan completed his acquisition up to the schoolhouse last level. In 1983, helium founded the Poultry Farmers Welfare Association and served arsenic its founder-president. He pioneered a modern agrarian selling barter strategy that continues to beryllium followed by traders and played a important relation successful promoting self-employment among educated and uneducated radical successful agrarian areas, providing year-round occupation opportunities.
He organised implicit 150 seminars and farmers’ meets to survey selling and pricing issues, forestall emerging poultry diseases, and amended poultry farmers. He was besides instrumental successful inclusion of eggs successful the State government’s noon repast strategy to code malnutrition among children.
An eminent entrepreneur and societal and user activist, Mr. Maeilanandhan received the Padma Shri for societal enactment successful 2013. He has served arsenic president of the Erode Consumer Protection Centre (CPC) for the past 33 years. The CPC has sub-centres successful each 299 colony panchayats successful the territory and user clubs successful schools and colleges. In 1993, the Government of India conferred the National Best Consumer Protection Council Award connected the CPC.
In 1999, helium adopted 2 Dalit villages astatine Saminathapuram, providing food, clothing, shelter, and escaped aesculapian facilities to the aged and children, on with assistance for marriages, childbirth, and funerals.
Mr. Maeilanandhan has been president of the World Community Service Centre (WCSC) for 37 years, spreading value-based taste education. About 2.51 lakh students person undergone assorted courses. Under the WCSC’s “Village Service Project,” 389 villages person been adopted crossed the State to beforehand bid done escaped acquisition successful yoga, meditation, and motivation values, benefiting astir 1.50 lakh people. He has received respective nationalist and state-level awards and honours.
