Kalaignar News channel shared a report on the situation of Padma Shri awardee Chinna Pillai, a renowned social activist from Madurai district. The report claimed that Chinna Pillai was not allotted a house under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana. The then-Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee had honoured Chinna Pillai with the Nari Shakti Puraskar award in 2001, and later, in 2019, he was bestowed with the Padma Shri. Vajpayee’s gesture of bowing down at Chinna Pillai’s feet during the award ceremony became a memorable moment. Chinna Pillai expressed disappointment in a recent interview, revealing that despite assurances, he had not received the promised house.
#BREAKING | பத்மஸ்ரீ சின்னப் பிள்ளைக்கு கலைஞரின் கனவு இல்லம் திட்டத்தின் கீழ் உடனடியாக வீடு வழங்கிட முதலமைச்சர் மு.க.ஸ்டாலின் உத்தரவு!#CMMKStalin | #DMK | #TNGovt | #KalaignarSeithigal pic.twitter.com/yvfDbJYhmX
— Kalaignar Seithigal (@Kalaignarnews) March 9, 2024
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin took to social media platform X to announce that he would have a house allotted for her under the Kalaignar Dream House Scheme. Stalin promised a plot of 380 sqft in addition to the one-cent house plot already provided by the government. In his post, he wrote, “I saw a video of Padma Shri Chinna Pillai speaking with pain that the house promised to her under the Prime Minister’s Housing Scheme has not yet been provided. Do not worry! In addition to the house already given to him, a plot for 380 square feet of land is given. Also, he will be given a new house under the scheme #லைஞரின்_கனவு_இல்லம். Construction will begin this month!”
பத்மஸ்ரீ சின்ன பிள்ளை அவர்கள் பிரதமர் வீடு வழங்கும் திட்டத்தின்கீழ் தனக்கு உறுதியளிக்கப்பட்ட வீடு இதுவரை வழங்கப்படவில்லை என்று வேதனையுடன் பேசிய காணொளியைக் கண்டேன்.
கவலை வேண்டாம்!
ஏற்கனவே அவருக்கு வழங்கப்பட்ட வீட்டுமனையுடன் கூடுதலாக 380 சதுர அடி நிலத்துக்கான பட்டா… https://t.co/DmjAzlpZOC
— M.K.Stalin (@mkstalin) March 9, 2024
Chinna Pillai, a key figure in the self-help group Kalanchiyam, has a history of championing fair wages for women agricultural laborers and rescuing families from usury. Despite facing poverty and advancing age, she continues his dedicated social work.
Debunking the narrative that Kalaignar News tried to create, Tamil Nadu Bharatiya Janata Party president K Annamalai, responded to Stalin’s post on X. He pointed out that PM Awas Yojana, a scheme funded by the Central Government, was implemented through the State Government. He wrote, “It is painful that Chief Minister Stalin does not even know that it is the state government’s responsibility to identify the beneficiaries and mobilize the funds from the central government. For the past two years, Chief Minister Mr. Stalin has gone to politics without even knowing that the DMK government has been accused of not providing funds and land to build a house for Padma Shri Chinna Pillai Amma.”
He further added that the Tahsildar had given only one cent of land to build a house after asking the District Collector. “Padmasree Chinnapillai Amma has been ignored without any solution even after complaining about it several times. Chief Minister Stalin has left all these hidden and has set out to stick a sticker without shame,” he concluded.
மத்திய அரசு நிதி வழங்கி, மாநில அரசின் வழியே செயல்படுத்தப்படும் திட்டம்தான் பிரதமரின் வீடு திட்டம். பயனாளிகளைக் கண்டறிந்து மத்திய அரசின் நிதியைக் கொண்டு சேர்க்க வேண்டிய பொறுப்பு மாநில அரசிடம் உள்ளது என்பது கூடத் தெரியாமல் முதலமைச்சர் ஸ்டாலின் அவர்கள் இருப்பது வேதனைக்குரியது.… https://t.co/KhvPp8erBL
— K.Annamalai (மோடியின் குடும்பம்) (@annamalai_k) March 9, 2024
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