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'''Vedaratnam Appakutti Pillai''' was an Indian [[Indian independence movement|freedom fighter]], social worker and the co-founder of [[Kasturba Gandhi National Memorial Trust]], a non profit [[non governmental organization]] working for the welfare of women in the rural areas of Indian state of [[Tamil Nadu]].<ref name="Services of freedom fighter Sardar Vedaratnam recalled">{{cite web | url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/services-of-freedom-fighter-sardar-vedaratnam-recalled/article1209838.ece | title=Services of freedom fighter Sardar Vedaratnam recalled | publisher=The Hindu | date=27 February 2008 | access-date=September 1, 2015}}</ref>

Born into a family of salt merchants in the state of Tamil Nadu to A. Vedaratnam, a freedom activist, he contributed to the efforts of his father to found ''Kasturba Gandhi Kanya Gurukulam'', a rural residential school for girls from financially challenged families, at [[Vedaranyam]], in [[Nagapattinam district]] of the state.<ref name="Kavignar Ramalingam Pillai’s statue unveiled by Elangovan">{{cite web | url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/kavignar-ramalingam-pillais-statue-unveiled-by-elangovan/article355790.ece | title=Kavignar Ramalingam Pillai’s statue unveiled by Elangovan | publisher=The Hindu | date=16 February 2009 | access-date=September 1, 2015}}</ref><ref name="Indian Freedom Fighter">{{cite web | url=http://www.sb.fsu.edu/~soma/Publications/Personal/SAV-VTS-Web.html | title=Indian Freedom Fighter | publisher=SB FSU | date=2006 | access-date=September 1, 2015}}</ref> The establishment has grown over the years to house a printing school, electronics and computer training school and an incense manufacturing unit.<ref name="Satsang introduction">{{cite web | url=http://www.oocities.org/vijaybackup/satsang.html | title=Satsang introduction | publisher=Oocities | date=2015 | access-date=September 1, 2015}}</ref> The [[Government of India]] awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of [[Padma Shri]] in 1989.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web | url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf | title=Padma Awards | publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India | date=2015 | access-date=July 21, 2015}}</ref>

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CleanupBot II: Removed empty portal template using script

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