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    Shri Akkamma Devi

    An interview with Ms.Hema Raman daughter of Shri Akkamma Devi: The first and last MP from the Nilgiris who was also involved in Indias freedom movement.
    Shri Akkamma devi played a vital role in starting Indco tea factories , establishing a polio vaccine unit at Pasteur Institute(until then which was producing only anti-rabies vaccines)and helping find a suitable place for providence College for women,the first women’s college in the district, through which lakhs of Badaga women have graduated till now.