Tamil Nadu News

80th year of Tamil Valarchi Kazhagam

September 12 , 2025 10 hrs 0 min 29 0

Tamil Valarchi Kazhagam was established in 1946 by former Education Minister T.S. Avinashilingam Chettiar under the Registration of Societies Act.
It was functioning from the Chepauk campus of the University of Madras, enters its 80th year in September 2025.
Former Union Minister for Home Affairs and Finance P. Chidambaram is the Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of the Kazhagam.
The Academy has launched a project to convert scanned Tamil content on the internet into searchable text using optical character recognition (OCR).
It has partnered with Wikipedia and the Central Institute of Classical Tamil for this digitisation initiative.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister presented ₹2.15 crore to support the its activities.
It has published 10 volumes of Tamil encyclopaedia, 10 volumes of children’s literature, 13 volumes on medicine, and 7 volumes on Siddha medicine.
The Academy is also executing six other projects, including a Tamil-Tamil-English student dictionary and a universal Tamil book catalogue.
Other ongoing projects include an encyclopedia of Tamil dramaturgy, an encyclopedia of thoughts in Tamil, Tamil word coinage, and a Tamilogy article archive.
The dictionary project is aimed at Tamil diaspora children and is expected to take one year for completion.