Education at Doorstep team sacked in Tamil Nadu after liquor buying video goes viral

A team of folk artists involved with Tamil Nadu’s Illam Thedi Kalvi or Education at Doorstep programme was sacked after a video showing them buying liquor went viral.

A team of folk artists involved with Tamil Nadu’s Illam Thedi Kalvi or Education at Doorstep programme was sacked after a video showing them buying liquor during working hours went viral on social media.

The folk artists were part of Tamil Nadu education department’s campaign to improve literacy. In the viral video, the folk artists were seen purchasing liquor from a TASMAC (Tamil Nadu State Marketing Corporation Limited) shop and placing the bottles inside a car that was allotted to them by the state government.