K Ponmanidevi, who retired as headmistress of a government school in Erode district in 1996 has reportedly donated an acre of land in Erode worth Rs.4 crore for the construction of government school buildings. In 2015, she had donated Rs.2 lakh for upgrading the Chithode government girls’ high school to a higher secondary school. The school authorities and the district administration have planned to conduct a function to honour K.Ponmanidevi in the presence of school education minister K A Sengottaiyan to honour her inspiring act of charity.