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This meeting is also gratified that the Founder Managing Trustee of Mazdoor Welfare Trust and GS/SRMU has visited 6 to 7 Engineering colleges already and has a fairly good idea to fashion the Anjalai Ammal Mahalingam Engineering college, as a MODEL College."
13.4.13. Ex.P11 is a circular dated 13.7.1994 issued by M.Namasivayam as the General Secretary of the Union to Branch Secretaries, Areas-In-Charge and COAs, conveying the decision of the Madras Divisional Council to make every Office bearer donate Rs.1,000/- and exhorting the Central Office bearers, Divisional Office bearers, Branch Presidents and Branch Secretaries to make similar contributions and also requesting the other Office bearers to make a contribution of a lesser amount. As seen from paragraph 1 of the circular, the donation was for the benefit of the Trust. Paragraph 2 of the circular shows that Mr.C.A.Raja Sridhar, the second plaintiff, also donated Rs.1,000/- on the spot.
13.4.17. In the next communication which forms part of Ex.P12 series, M.Namasivayam informed all concerned that the Expert Committee of the All India Council for Technical Education had completed the inspection. In the last paragraph of the said communication, he proclaimed proudly that it was the first ever Engineering College run by the workers. Similarly, in the letter addressed to the Chairman of the All India Council for Technical Education, M.Namasivayam claimed that the Southern Railway Mazdoor Union founded the Mazdoor Welfare Trust in 1987 and that Anjalai Ammal Mahalingam Engineering College was the brain child of the Union. In paragraph 2 of the said letter, the Founder Trustee claimed that the donation collected from the workers, was for the purpose of spreading the field of activity from pure Trade Unionism to the area of Constructive Education. In the penultimate paragraph, he claimed that it was the first ever "WORKERS MANAGED" Model Engineering College. A copy of this letter is also filed separately as Ex.P45.