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    Corporation schools’ campaign to boost enrolment rate

    The students and teachers of Corporation schools are holding an awareness campaigns as part of efforts to improve the enrolment rate in their schools.

    Corporation schools’ campaign to boost enrolment rate
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    Chennai Corporation school students participating in the awareness rally at Vyasarpadi

    Chennai

    The schools are holding rallies, handing out bills and putting up flex boards in the areas near the school to draw attention of parents and children. Educational Officer, D Ranjini said that all the schools would be taking part in this campaign. 

    The respective schools head master/ head mistresses were taking steps to organise the campaign near their respective institutions. On March 17, the corporation school in New Kamaraj Nagar, Perambur took out a rally in the locality, where over 275 students from Class 3 to 8 participated in the rally. The campaign will be intensified and continued till the first week of April. 

    The bills handed out to the public highlight the facilities offered by the corporation schools free of cost and to show that they are on par with any private schools. 

    “English medium, Montessori’s, smart classes, digital education, karate classes for girls, are some of the unique features that are being publicised. The flex boards display these features and once the state board results are out, the performance will be displayed on these hoardings too,” a corporation official said.  

    Ranjani said, “Now even parents with low income prefer to put their children in matriculation or other private educational institutions, while the corporation schools that afford quality education from KG level to class XII can provide the same facilities.” 

    According to data available with Sarva Siksha Abhiyan officials, 77,209 students had enrolled in 2015-16 academic year, however, it stood at 76,869 in the subsequent academic year.

    Teachers’ Assn lists demands to govt

    The State Level Committee Meeting of Tamil Nadu Teachers Association, which met recently, had placed a list of demands before the government which included pension scheme, government orders for teachers and exemption for TET for certain teachers. 

    If the demands were not accepted by the government, members would observe a state-level hunger strike during the fourth week of April, the Association said in a resolution adopted at the meeting. Out of 3,200 teachers appointed by the government in 2011, 300 were classified as special category. 

    “Those who are legal heirs of ex-servicemen, widows of differently-abled persons, inter-caste marriage candidates, destitute women, should be given exemption from the TET,” said State President of TNTA, P K Illamaran. 

    Association sought exemption those who were appointed as teacher since 2011. Another demand was to cancel the compulsory pension scheme, which was implemented in 2004, and revert to the old system. Regarding promotion, the meeting alleged that teachers who had a cross major master’s degree in History were being promoted on a priority basis overlooking a candidate who had done UG and PG in History itself.

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