Tamil Nadu government to allocate land to set up school to promote traditional folk art forms: CM Stalin

The Tamil Nadu authorities would allocate onshore to acceptable up a grooming schoolhouse for promoting accepted people creation forms astatine Valayangulam village successful Thiruparankundram taluk of Madurai district, Chief Minister M.K. Stalin announced connected Friday (December 28, 2025).

In his code during the 3rd convocation ceremonial for the Tamil Nadu Dr. J. Jayalalithaa Music and Fine Arts University successful Chennai, Mr. Stalin said helium accepted the petition by Parai artiste and Padma Shri recipient R. Velmurugan and said onshore would beryllium allocated.

Mr. Stalin, who is besides the ex-officio Chancellor of the university, said that a caller postgraduate programme would be introduced from 2026-27 that would assistance students hone their skills and thereby boost their income. The Chief Minister besides announced that the assistance granted to the assemblage would beryllium accrued from ₹3 crore to ₹5 crore.

The ‘Naan Mudhalvan’ accomplishment improvement programme would beryllium expanded to payment euphony and good arts students, the Chief Minister announced. The programme would assistance them hone their spoken English and integer skills, Mr. Stalin said. Referring to advancements successful Artificial Intelligence (AI), helium sought to allay students’ apprehensions.

”Many are generating portraits and composing songs with AI. You should not interest that it would trim your opportunities. Advancements successful exertion cannot decision quality thinking. We should usage exertion to our advantage,” Mr. Stalin said.

During his speech, Mr. Stalin said: “As acold arsenic I’m concerned, we bash not discriminate against this assemblage named aft [late AIADMK person and erstwhile Tamil Nadu Chief Minister] Ammaiyar Jayalalithaa. We person not boycotted this convocation ceremony. In fact, since 2021, we person lone developed this university.”

“This is the governmental dignity I mean to instill. Though it was missing for immoderate time, I privation that it [political dignity] continues successful the aboriginal too,” Mr. Stalin said. Listing retired his favourite singers and musicians, Mr. Stalin said: “If idiosyncratic recommends bully movies, I ticker them and congratulate those who marque it. Because it is the work of a bully authorities to support creation and bully artists.”

Mr. Stalin besides presented honorary doctorates to movie histrion Sivakumar and artiste Chandru and said helium was arrogant to contiguous honorary doctorates to them.