Perambalur MP and Chancellor of SRM Institute of Science & Technology, Dr T R Paarivendhar, who had promised to give free education to 300 deserving students from his constituency in the SRM Group of colleges, has completed the promise this year.
In 2019, around the elections, Paarivendhar had given this assurance to the people of his constituency. And after his win by over four lakh votes, he immediately fulfilled his poll promise. A total of 300 students were recently given free education in the colleges under the SRM ambit. This year, too, 1,084 students had applied for free education. Out of them, 300 have been selected based on their marks and the financial situation of their respective families.
Apart from putting their names on the SRM website, a formal invitation will be sent to the students individually, who will then be pursuing education in engineering, agriculture, arts and science as per their preferences.
Paarivendhar has also been taking up various issues of his constituency with both the Prime Minister and the Chief Minister of the State. He met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on March 18, 2020, to talk about the various needs of the Perambalur constituency.
Among the issues were the need for a railway line via Ariyalur-Perambalur-Thuraiyur-Namakkal. He also took up the issue with Railway Minister Piyush Goyal, who write to Paarivendhar that the first survey for the railway line will be taken up shortly.
With Chief Minister Edappadi Palanisamy, the Perambalur MP took up the issues of railway bridge at Kulithalai-Manapparai, bringing residual Cauvery water through a canal to Panjapatti lake, setting up Kendriya Vidyalayas in Lalgudi and Kulithalai, and establishing cold storage facilities to help small-scale onion farmers in Thuraiyur and Perambalur.