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The Tamil Nadu authorities connected Tuesday (January 13, 2026) announced assorted awards to eminent personalities for their contributions to nine arsenic good arsenic the Tamil connection and culture. The recepients are: student M.P. Sathiyavel Muruganar, Dravidar Kazhagam’s propaganda caput and advocator A. Arulmozhi, Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK) legislator M. Sinthanai Selvan, elder DMK person and Minister Duraimurugan, Congress functionary S.M. Hidayathullah, writer Nellai Jayantha, lyricist Yuga Bharathi, retired IAS serviceman and erstwhile Tamil Nadu Chief Secretary V. Irai Anbu, teacher and student Su. Chellappa, and erstwhile Rajya Sabha MP Vidhuthalai Virumbi.
Chief Minister M.K. Stalin volition contiguous these awards to the recipients during a relation arsenic portion of the Thiruvallur Day celebrations connected January 16, an authoritative merchandise stated. Each of them volition get a currency prize of ₹5 lakh, a one-sovereign golden medal, a citation, and a shawl, it further said.
Mr. Muruganar volition person the Ayyan Thiruvalluvar Award, which is presented annually to an eminent property who works towards spreading the ideals of Thiruvalluvar. Ms. Arulmozhi has been named for the Thanthai Periyar Award, which honours the enactment of those striving towards societal justice.
Mr. Sinthanai Selvan is acceptable to person the Annal Ambedkar Award, which is conferred connected a idiosyncratic from Tamil Nadu who has been moving for the payment of the Adi Dravidar and tribal communities. Mr. Duraimurugan volition beryllium presented the Perarignar Anna Award, fixed to an idiosyncratic who has been moving with the radical for the betterment of society, by pursuing successful the footsteps of precocious person and erstwhile Chief Minister C.N. Annadurai.
Mr. Hidayathullah volition person the Perunthalaivar Kamarajar Award that is presented annually to individuals who, similar Kamarajar, person contributed to the advancement of the Tamil people. Mr. Jayantha has been named the recepient of the Mahakavi Bharathiyar Award, which is presented to individuals who person studied and researched Bharati’s works thoroughly and person created poems, prose works, and different forms of literate and societal services.
Mr. Yuga Bharathi is acceptable to person the Pavendhar Bharathidasan Award, presented to an outstanding writer who has served the Tamil language, abiding by the contented and bequest of the large revolutionary writer Bharathidasan. Mr. Irai Anbu volition person the Thamizhthendral Thiru.Vi.Ka. Award, fixed to a Tamil writer who excels successful the tract of literature, pursuing the literate benignant of Thiru.Vi.Ka.
Mr. Chellappa volition beryllium fixed the grant named aft Muththamizh Kavalar Ki. Aa. Pe. Viswanatham, who dedicated his beingness to the revival and upliftment of the Tamil connection and worked tirelessly passim his beingness successful 3 cardinal areas: connection preservation, connection development, and the spreading of the language. Mr. Vidhuthalai Virumbi has been named for the Muthamizh Arignar Kalaignar Award, which recognises individuals who work in the work of the Tamil connection and culture, pursuing the way laid by the precocious person and erstwhile Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi.
