Muslim women aid society inactive in many Tamil Nadu districts:

Tiruchy: The Federation of Muslim Women Aid Society (FeMWAS) has appealed to the Tamil Nadu Government to instruct all the 32 district collectors in the state to give suitable directions to the concerned officials and office-bearers to activate the society’s units at the district level. The collector is the president of the respective district unit of FeMWAS, while the district project officer of ‘Mahalir Thittam’ is its vice-president who coordinate with the district backward classes and minority welfare officers.  

The Federation vice president, Mustafa Kamal and general secretary, Mr Syed Ahmed of ‘FeMWAS’ told DC that a resolution to this effect was adopted at the state office-bearers meeting held here on Saturday under the leadership of its president I. Mohammed Kamaludeen,

He said that out of 32 districts in Tamil Nadu, the activities of FeMWAS in districts of Thiruvannamalai, Karur, Pudukkottai, Kanyakumari, Namakkal, Virudhunagar Tiruvarur and Ariylaur, were inactive and decided to take necessary steps for activating their activities with help of respective district collectors, who are also chairman of ‘FeMWAS’.They said erstwhile British rulers formed such organisations to help the Muslim war widows in 1894.