CM Vijay met representatives of disability-rights organisations and transgender-rights activists at the Secretariat to hear their concerns, and met the 2025-batch IAS trainee officers allotted to Tamil Nadu.
CM Vijay met representatives of disability-rights organisations and transgender-rights activists at the Secretariat to hear their concerns, and met the 2025-batch IAS trainee officers allotted to Tamil Nadu.
On Tuesday, May 19, 2026, Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay opened the Secretariat to groups that rarely get time with a Chief Minister in his first weeks — disability-rights and transgender-rights representatives — and met the State’s newest IAS officers.
Members of the State Advisory Board for Persons with Disabilities and leaders of disability organisations met the Chief Minister — among them Smitha Sadasivam, Gnanabharathi (Spinal Injury Association), Dr. Simmachandran (federation of disability associations), Prof. Hemachandran Kara (Accessibility Research Centre, IIT Madras), Saravanan and T.S. Santhakumari.
Activist Grace Banu, a member of the Supreme Court’s advisory committee, met the Chief Minister with Swetha (Born2Win), Aruna (AHEAD), Thenmozhi (Trans Right Now Collective) and social workers.
The 2025-batch IAS trainees allotted to Tamil Nadu — including Aman Tiwari, Siddharth Pokharna, R. Monika, P. Pavithra, G.P. Nandana, Rahul Raghavan and Tushar Singh — called on the Chief Minister as they begin their careers in the State.
Social justice is one of the values at the heart of the government. Hearing directly from people with disabilities and transgender persons in the first ten days showed that their concerns would have a place in policy-making.
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