The New Indian Express 30.11.2010
New schemes for Chennai school students
Speaking to reporters after launching one of the schemes, bi-cycle shed for students in the civic body’s 24 Chennai Higher Secondary schools, at Kolathur here, Subramanian said, “Based on feedback from 13,000-odd public exam appearing students (class 10 and 12), who complained about difficulties in eating fruit breads supplied during evening special classes, Corporation has replaced it with nutritious biscuit packets.” To notch up the best performance by Chennai School students in public exams year after year, we have introduced several student-oriented schemes and the distribution of nutritious biscuit packets was also part of it, Subramanian said.
The civic body has spent about Rs 1.11 crore for developing bi-cycle sheds for students at 24 Chennai Higher Secondary schools located in its 10 zones, while the scheme to distribute biscuit packets to 13,000 students would cost the Corporation an additional Rs 49 lakhs per year.
