Ninth World Tamil conference in Coimbatore in January 2010

The Ninth World Tamil Conference will be held in Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu on January 21-24, 2010.  A meeting presided over by Chief Minister M Karunanidhi decided to set up various committees for the conduct of the World Tamil Conference, which will include a number of seminars, a grand procession, and other events.

Apart form Chief Minister M Karunanidhi, the meeting was attended by Finance Minister K Anbazhagan, Deputy Chief Minister M K Stalin, Union Minister for Communications A Raja, Ministers Pongalur, S Arumugam, N Veerapandi, K Ponmudi and Palanisamy, Chief Secretary K S Sripathi, District Collectors and senior police officers.

The next meeting will discuss the programme for the Tamil meet, the Chief Minister said. It was decided to invite Tamil scholars and other prominent Tamils residing abroad to attend the conference.

The venue for the different events, the routes for the procession and such other details are yet to be determined.

At the meeting, M Karunanidhi asked the District Collectors to strive to make the 9th World Tamil Conference “a remarkable one” ands told them not to bother about funds.

The state government, he added, was considering appointing a special officer at the Secretariat to supervise the preparations for the Tamil conference and also appointing a coordinator to the District Collector of Coimbatore.

Karunanidhi told the participants of the meet how his mentor C N Annadurai held the 2nd World Tamil Conference in a “grand manner” involving scholars from many parts of the world.

Annadurai’s aim was to make known to the world the rich cultural traditions of the Tamilians, which, in turn, indeed helped “rekindle the pride of the Tamil language,” the Chief Minister recalled.

He said the chariots that will be used in the procession in connection with the Tamil conference should “proclaim the glory of the Tamil race and the kings, warriors and poets who once lived in this glorious land” and, eventually, convey to New Delhi the message that Tamil must be made an official language of the country.