Date:30/11/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/11/30/stories/2008113056720300.htm

Tamil Nadu

“Redouble efforts to ensure 100 per cent literacy”

Staff Reporter

Review: Minister for School Education Thangam Thennarasu chairing a meeting in Karur on Saturday. Collector J. Umamaheswari is also seen.

KARUR: Teachers and officials should redouble their efforts to improve standard of education and ensure that the State becomes 100 per cent literate soon, School Education Minister Thangam Thennarasu exhorted the officials of his department at a regional level review meeting conducted here on Saturday. Department of School Education officials from Karur, Tiruchi, Perambalur, Thanjavur, Pudukkottai and Virudhunagar districts participated in the deliberations.

The Minister said that construction work of school buildings, maintenance of the old buildings housing classrooms and improvement to basic amenities should be expedited. Similarly, construction work on public libraries as also repair and maintenance work on existing libraries should be carried out properly, he instructed.

To improve the standard of education, all stakeholders from Chief Education Officers to the teachers should work in consonance, redouble their efforts and dedicate themselves, Mr. Thangam Thennarasu told the gathered officials.

The public should be enlightened on the development works that were taking place in the schools for which display boards should be put up in the premises. CEOs and District Educational Officers should monitor the work, he directed.

The Minister laid stress on good training and refresher course for the teachers to enthuse them and keep them abreast of the recent developments in various fields of activity.

The endeavours of the Sarva Siksha Abhiyan and the Adult and Continuing Education should be furthered gainfully. Besides, functioning of the matriculation schools should be monitored routinely, the Minister said. Also, efforts should be taken to amicably solve the pending cases, he added.

Principal Secretary, School Education Department, M. Kutralingam, Karur District Collector J. Umamaheswari, School Education Director P. Perumalsamy, Director of Primary Elementary Education Devarajan, Director of Public Libraries Ramani, Director of Matriculation Schools Mani, DIET Director Vasundhara Devi, Non-formal Education Director Lakshmi, joint directors of various wings in Department of School Education, CEOs and District Library Officers, officials from the Public Works Department (Buildings) and other officials participated in the discussions.