The Vice President of India, M. Hamid Ansari has said that it was a privilege to unveil the statue of Dr. M. Sreenivasan, who would be remembered for his service to his beloved people of Kerala through the spread of education. He was addressing the event after unveiling the statue of Dr. M. Sreenivasan in Kollam, Kerala today. The Governor of Kerala, Justice (Retd.) P. Sathasivam and the Minister for Forests, Animal Husbandry and Zoos, Kerala, Shri K. Raju were present on the occasion. The Vice President said that Dr. Sreenivasan personified, in his dedication to the betterment of others through education, the teachings and the spirit of Kerala’s great saint and social reformer, the mystic poet Sree Narayan Guru, after whom this college is named. It is befitting, therefore, that Dr. Sreenivasan’s statue be placed here in his beloved college, he added. The Vice President said that generations of students who have passed from this college, under Dr. Sreenivasan’s tutelage, remember him with great affection and continue to spread his message of social reform through education throughout India and beyond. He commended the work done by the Dr. M. Sreenivasan Foundation as well as for their initiative in having this statue erected here in memory of a great educationist and humanitarian.