Date:08/09/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/09/08/stories/2008090850710200.htm

Tamil Nadu - Chennai

Muthiah Chettiar Award conferred on Anbagam

Special Correspondent

— Photo: K.V. Srinivasan

RECOGNITION: Madras High Court judge S. Rajeswaran (right) presenting the Kumara Rajah M.A.M. Muthiah Chettiar Birthday Commemoration Award to Anbagam director P. Veeramani in Chennai on Saturday. Patron of the Rajah Sir Annamalai Chettiar Memorial Trust M.A.M. Ramaswamy is in the picture.

CHENNAI: The lives of great men teach humility and inspire others to emulate them, Madras High Court judge S. Rajeswaran said on Saturday.

Presenting the Kumara Rajah M.A.M. Muthiah Chettiar Birthday Commemoration Award to Anbagam, a special school and home for mentally retarded children, he said such men motivated others to do a good deed.

The award has been instituted by the Rajah Sir Annamalai Chettiar Memorial Trust and comprises Rs.1 lakh in cash, a citation and a plaque. “We need to live a disciplined life,” he told the gathering at the function organised on the occasion of Kumara Rajah’s 80th birth anniversary.

Concern over pending cases

Expressing concern at the number of cases pending in courts, Mr. Rajeswaran said that on the one hand, increased awareness of a person’s rights was welcome, but more cases were being registered in family courts with little understanding of what a family constituted.

He lauded Anbagam’s efforts at improving the lives of differently abled children and hoped that a time would come when there would not be ant need for such institutions.

Former Vice-Chancellor of Manomaniyam Sundaranar University K.P. Aravanan lauded the initiatives of Kumara Rajah’s family in education.

P. Veeramani, director of Anbagam; M.A.M. Ramaswamy, patron, Rajah Sir Annamalai Chettiar Memorial Trust; and M.A.M.R. Muthiah, president of the trust, spoke.