Current affairs

Watch: Udhayanidhi Stalin and TN Minister Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi welcome students back to the school!

By alagu, 01 November, 2021
Udhayanidhi Stalin, MK Stalin, School, Tamilnadu

The schools in Tamil Nadu are back to business after the government had consented to their resumption from November 1. The schools across the state were reopened on Monday for Classes 1 to 8 and the students are back to their pre-Covid world classrooms after 19 months. The resumption has become crucial for the state to return to normalcy amid battling the Covid-19 pandemic. Classes 1 to 8 were reopened two months after the resumption of classes 9 to 12. 

Primary and elementary school students have been studying online since March 2020 and they have now resumed their studies physically from their classroom. The schools across the state were decorated to welcome back the students in the midst of the apprehension of the parents over the virus spread among the younger generation. As the Covid-19 vaccination hasn't yet started for the students of these classes, the government had issued guidelines to the faculty and the schools on accommodating the students in a friendly atmosphere.

The school education department had rolled out several directives to the stakeholders at a high time when the state is heading towards the festive season. As the students are coming to the schools after 19 months, the government has offered great reception to them by distributing sweets and flowers to give them a comfortable transition from the new normal to the pre-Covid world. It has been reported that 34 lakh students of these grades in the state would be returning to the schools after 19 months. 

With the current resumption, all one crore students from Class 1 to 12 are now back to school and Tamil Nadu has become one of the major Indian states to reopen the schools completely. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin had instructed the ministers, MPs, and MLAs to welcome the students to the school and Chief Minister himself had become the pioneer of welcoming the students to the school. MK Stalin had distributed books for the students in a Chennai school after the resumption. 

Several ministers and legislators had welcomed the students to the schools in their respective areas and in line with that, DMK MLA Udhayanidhi Stalin has joined Tamil Nadu School Education Minister Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi to welcome the students. Both of them had visited a government school in Pethanayakanur in the Coimbatore district on Monday and distributed flowers and sweets to the students and wished them as they are inching to the pre-Covid world. 

Besides Chief Minister MK Stalin, who welcomed the students in Chennai, Tamil Nadu Minister Thangam Tennarasu and DMK MP Dayanidhi Maran had welcomed the students in Lady Wellington government school in Egmore, Chennai. The minister had provided facemasks and sanitiser to the school administration as the students have met each other in their classroom after 19 months. With the view of reducing the burden of transition and settling the students back to the classroom ecosystem, the elementary education department has asked the schools to conduct storytelling, drawing, and other creative sessions for the first two weeks. 

The schools have come up with a plan of splitting the total strength of the students into two and conducting physical classes on alternate days. In some areas, the students were welcomed with balloons, sweets, chocolates, biscuits, and pencil pouches. Setting a new pattern in schooling, the schools in Tamil Nadu are opting to go for alternate-days teaching to accommodate more students, unlike how pupils rubbed their shoulders in the classroom before the lockdown. 

While most of the students had received the first-of-its-kind welcome from the ministers, legislators, and teachers, a section of students in the state was welcomed by heavy downpours due to which the schools were shut. Several districts of Tamil Nadu had recorded heavy rains on Sunday and the rainfall has been incessant on Monday and the schools were shut in the districts of Cuddalore, Villupuram, Tirunelveli, Vellore, and Kallakurichi. The schools in these districts will be opened after the mitigation of the rains. 

 

You may also like

Comments