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Coming Up: Exclusive Newsletters for Corporation Schools

Saturday, 04 January 2014 07:46
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The New Indian Express                04.01.2014

Coming Up: Exclusive Newsletters for Corporation Schools

The newsletters will help the schools share their model practices and events with other schools| Express Photo
The newsletters will help the schools share their model practices and events with other schools| Express Photo

Students of Chennai schools might soon find their classroom activities and projects, the subjects of household chatter. In an attempt to make the most of the best practices in Chennai schools and achievements of its students, the Chennai Corporation has decided to have periodical newsletters exclusively on the schools.

The initiative taken up by the Education Department of the Chennai Corporation is an attempt to ensure that model practices and events in the schools do not die down within the classroom walls, but are emulated by other schools and education experts. It will also provide a forum for the students to bring out their unique projects, achievements in competitions and their contributions in various fields into the public domain.

The initiative is being launched by the Corporation with the assistance of Everest Edusys and Solutions Private Limited which has been providing the QED Science Galleries in the Corporation Schools. “We hope to bring out the first edition of the newsletter soon after Pongal. A small editorial team will take up the input from all the schools and put it together in the paper. The publication and distribution will be done by the Chennai Corporation,” sad the Vice President of the Business Development of Everest Edusys and Solutions, Uma Mahesh.

According to the tentative pattern, the newsletter will have four pages and will be bilingual, with Tamil and English. One page will have photo feature meanwhile the others too will have many pictures and less test so that parents and others from any background is easily able to comprehend the text.

Officials said that the target was publish the newsletters at least on a fortnightly basis. “We hope that through the students it will reach the parents and the public also. This will require around a 1 lakh copies of the newsletter. We hope to bring it out at least once fortnight,” said a senior official with the Chennai Corporation’s Education department.

The Chennai Corporation will soon have six more school science galleries in the city, bringing it a total of 10 science galleries in the city and to one science gallery per zone. These are to be opened within this academic year.

 

24-hour drinking water, thanks to Vaikunta Ekadasi

Saturday, 04 January 2014 05:56
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The Hindu               04.01.2014

24-hour drinking water, thanks to Vaikunta Ekadasi

Special Correspondent

The Tiruchirapalli City Corporation will provide a 24-hour drinking water supply to all households and public taps in Srirangam during the Vaikunta Ekadasi festival at the Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple. The civic body will set up 12 temporary toilets and 39 temporary urinals in different parts of the town, Mayor A.Jaya said in a press release after inspecting the arrangements for the festival and some of the development works under in Srirangam on Friday. Toilets will be established at the parking lots at Srirangam Salai Road and Thimmarayasamudiram in the town. Necessary arrangements are being made to ensure cleanliness in the town, she said and appealed to people not to litter public places.

Earlier, she inspected the construction of storm water drains at Amma Mandapam Road, Veereswaram Mela Theru, Gandhi Nagar and Nelson Road.

Mayor appeals to the citizens to avoid littering in public places.

 

Family donates well to civic body

Saturday, 04 January 2014 05:54
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The Hindu               04.01.2014

Family donates well to civic body

To overcome shortage:The well donated by a family to Salem Corporation in S.R.M. Thottam. —PHOTO: E. LAKSHMI NARAYANAN
To overcome shortage:The well donated by a family to Salem Corporation in S.R.M. Thottam. —PHOTO: E. LAKSHMI NARAYANAN

This is a contribution that might prove face-saving for the Salem Corporation that struggles to supply enough drinking water to all its 60 Wards.

A family in Ward 50 has donated an 80-foot well to the civic body so that it could improve water supply to the people of a particular locality in the ward. The well was given away in June 2012, but the gesture came to light on Friday, with Minister for Highways and Minor Ports Edappadi K. Palaniswami inaugurating the supply and felicitating the donor family at a function.

Spread over 729 square feet at S.R.M. Thottam in Shanmuga Nagar, the 60-year-old well belongs to the family of S.M. Periyasamy, a farmer who died a few years ago.

The well was lying idle for many years as it could not be maintained after the family sold its agricultural lands.

People then began dumping waste into it, P. Bhaskar, son of Periyasamy, said on Friday. But, the well had never gone dry, even during the harshest of summers.

To ensure that it was put to good use, Mr. Bhaskar’s mother Dhanalakshmi, sisters Agilandeswari and Vasavi and brother P. Sridhar decided to donate the well to the Corporation so that the well water could be provided to the residents in the neighbourhood.

The well was registered in the name of Corporation Commissioner on June 4, 2012 on the condition that water drawn from it would be supplied only to 1,350 families in the area.

Corporation officials said that various works including, desilting, installation of electric motor and construction of walls around the well were carried out at a cost of Rs. 31 lakh in the past one year. An overhead tank with a capacity of one lakh litres was renovated and water from the well would be stored in it.

Residents in the area said that Corporation supplied water once in 15 days and they were forced to fetch water from other areas. They hoped that the well would help overcome the shortage they had been experiencing so long.

It was lying idle for many years after the family sold its agricultural lands.

 
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