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Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu - Chennai

Amritanandamayi Math to hand over houses for tsunami-hit

Special Correspondent

Mata Amritanandamayi is on a 20-day tour of State

CHENNAI: The Mata Amritanandamayi Math, which has constructed permanent houses for tsunami victims, will hand over the last batch of dwellings at Nagapattinam on January 31. Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, who is on a 20-day tour of Tamil Nadu covering seven towns, will hand over the symbolic key to Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi at a public function.

The programme will be followed by Mata's bhajans, satsang and darshan. About a lakh devotees from Nagapattinam and other districts are expected to participate in the function and have the darshan, according to Abhayamrita Chaitanya, math's chief of tsunami relief and rehabilitation in Tamil Nadu. The math has built about 4,000 permanent houses in Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Pondicherry, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Sri Lanka .

Houses for the poor

It is also involved in various other service activities including constructing houses for the poor in Chennai, Coimbatore, Rameswaram Sathyamangalam and Sattur.

Mata Amritanandamayi will be in Chennai on January 27 and 29.

On January 27, at a public function on Pachaiyappa's College Ground, the math will launch charitable activities in Tamil Nadu. On January 29, there will be darshan at the math located on Arcot Road, Virugambakkam. She will be present at public functions at Tiruchi on January 25, Madurai on February 2 and 4, Ramanathapuram on February 6 and Kanyakumari on February 8.

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