Date:19/07/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/07/19/stories/2008071959610700.htm

Tamil Nadu

50 primary schools upgraded

Special Correspondent

TIRUVANNAMALAI: Fifty primary schools in Tiruvannamalai district have been upgraded into middle schools during 2008-09 and Rs.4.96 crore has been allotted for the construction of classrooms, Collector M. Rajendran has said. He was presiding over a meeting of the District Education Committee of Sarva Siksha Abhyan here on Thursday.

Mr. Rajendran, who is also president of the committee, said 70 graduate teachers would be appointed for the upgraded schools. Monetary grant, uniform, free food and free textbooks would be supplied to the institutions. Work on the construction of residential schools in the villages of Mutlathur and Puliyoor in Jawadhu Hills panchayat union and Perungulathur in Thandrambattu panchayat union has been completed.

A sum of Rs.71.24 lakh has been allotted for providing education to 3,270 school dropouts, providing free textbooks to them and for running the residential schools, he said.

It has been decided to provide training in spoken English to 1,700 children belonging to Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes studying in Standards VI, VII and VIII in the district.