Our efforts in persuading the Tamilnadu Government to declare Onam day as a public holiday have found partial solutions and they have declared the day as a holiday for all educational institutions in four Districts.

During the tsunami disaster, the Government of Kerala had nominated CTMA as the coordination Organisation to extend support to affected families. Perhaps for the first time ever, the Kerala Government had distributed financial aid to some of the Malayalee victims. CTMA had played a dominant role then in rescue and rehabilitation.

When war-affected Indian citizens were evacuated from Lebanon, the Government of Kerala also sought the involvement of CTMA to help out those Malayalees who were brought to various Airports in India. Here too, CTMA rose to the occasion and warmly received all Malayalee evacuees.

We have liaised on an ongoing basis with the Southern Railway in enhancing passenger amenities on trains, introducing new and additional train services especially towards northern Kerala. We are gratified to say that we have been successful in most such interventions.

Whenever any Malayalee is unfairly victimized, intimidated or otherwise victimized we have intervened and we have taken up such instances for immediate redressal.

The Confederation also attempts to bring about social harmony and cultural fusion ofKerala and Tamilnadu – our ‘janmabhoomi’ and‘karma bhoomi’. We are gratified to see that we have been successful in these attempts to a very large extent.

The Confederation has been conducting its prestigious annual event aptly titled ‘Avanippoovarangu for over ten years at Chennai.  This annual Onam celebration draws a large crowd and also are covered by the national media.

CTMA Publication-We bring out our own publication under the name CTMA NEWS.  It is published every 3 months and distributed all over  Tamilnadu.

When facilities for transporting dead bodies were arbitrarily stopped by the Railways,CTMA intervened and got them to permit carrying of dead bodies as was done earlier.