Vijay is the only one who has a reach among tribal people in Attappady, says Palakkad Assistant Collector

Palakkad Assistant Collector Umesh Kesavan’s Facebook post about the living condition in Attappady and the reach of Vijay there is going viral in social media now. He said that the people there had no connection with the outer world. They have no roads, street lights, toilets. They don’t know what happening outside their world and they only knows Vijay and he is the only one who have a reach there. Umesh Kesavan is a Tamil Nadu native and now he is working as the assistant collector of Palakkad District.

He had visited Attappady area to study about the education, life style etc of the people there. After visiting the place where tribal people lives, he had posted about their condition. He said that there were no roads and street lights in their place. Toilets were nowhere to be seen.

When asked about their toilets, someone said that the hills around their area is the toilets for them. Children not going to school and they thinks that it is a waste of time. When he asked them, what they do when they get free time, they says that they will watch Vijay movies in TV and will watch the songs from Vijay films when it comes on TV.

No development programs from Government reached there, but Vijay reached there through his movies. Umesh Kesavan says that he had contacted Vijay’s office and invited him to that village.