This story is from August 15, 2016

Vijay to address villagers at Attapadi?

The actor is likely to speak to the villagers at Attapadi about education and other welfare measures
Vijay to address villagers at Attapadi?
When the newly appointed assistant collector of Palakkad district, Umesh Kesavan recently put up a post on his social networking page, it went viral. The post stated that Attapadi, a tribal hamlet in the district didn���t have access to toilets despite the Swachch Bharat mission going in full swing.
The post read, ���Got a chance to visit a remote hamlet in the Attapady tribal block of Palakkad district yesterday.The roads were non-existent, the street lights had gone into hiding, toilets were a no-no (When asked "where is your toilet?", a guy pointed out the entire hill around him and said "it's all our toilet") and there was general apathy towards government.
A bunch of guys there were not interested in going to school as they found it pointless anyway. They had no clue about the society around them . When asked what do they do to pass time during non-agricultural seasons/weekends , one guy said "We watch Vijay movies and songs in Tamil channels all the time". Crores and crores of social welfare funds had not reached that untouched remote hamlet. Only Vijay had reached.���
The post garnered a lot of attention and the assistant collector clarified that the district administration should tap into the actor's popularity to take forward the welfare and development measures. Now we hear that the actor had obliged to meet the villagers of Attapadi and talk to them about the importance of education. The actor, we hear, also met the assistant collector and discussed the same with him. However, there's no official confirmation on the same.
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