Tamil University Facing Fund Crunch

Thanjavur: Tamil University, Thanjavur, established in 1981 by the then Chief Minister M G Ramachandran for the advancement of learning and research in Tamil language, literature and culture, is facing severe financial constraint and shortage of staff as the subsequent governments had turned a ‘deaf ear’ to its woes.

Through the idea of creating a separate university for Tamil language was mooted as early as 1925 by the then scholars, it took a concrete shape only in 1981, thanks to the initiatives taken by MGR. He announced at the Fifth World Tamil conference at Madurai that a university exclusively to promote high level research in Tamilology would be set up at Thanjavur as the place had been the embodiment of art and culture for centuries together

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