Date:06/02/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/02/06/stories/2008020655420300.htm

Tamil Nadu

Tiruvarur schools have got assets worth Rs.20 crore

Special Correspondent

Thanks to the Schools Reforms Conference

— Photo: M. Srinath

Good work: Thangam Thennarasu, School Education Minister, looking at a product displayed at an exhibition in Tiruvarur on Tuesday.

TIRUVARUR: Assets worth Rs.20 crore have been created for schools in Tiruvarur district through the Schools Reforms Conference, said the Minister for School Education, Thangam Thennarasu, at Tiruvarur on Tuesday.

Inaugurating an exhibition organised as part of the conference, he said that a sum of Rs.7,500 crores was allotted in the budget for School Education Department. Besides this allotment, the Central Government was also providing financial assistance under various schemes. But people’s participation was necessary to make education a community-oriented exercise. School reforms conferences provide an opportunity to the people to contribute liberally for improvement of schools. Both movable and immovable properties were created by way of such public contributions.

He said that the Government would examine the demand for establishing a Government Higher Secondary School at Tiruvarur.

The Dairy Development Minister, U. Mathivanan, said that it was Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi who established a Government college at Tiruvarur. Now he had issued orders for establishing Government Medical and Engineering colleges and also a Central University.

He said that funds had been allotted for the construction of conference stages at the Government high and higher secondary schools in the district.

A.K. Vijayan, Nagapattinam MP, K. Ulaganathan and P. Padmavathi MLAs, T. Jaganathan, Director, School Education, P.K. Janardhanan, Chief Education Officer, M. Chandrasekaran, Collector, J. Uamamaheswari, Director, Tamil Nadu Elementary Education, participated in the function.