The Hindu 24.12.2009
Corporation school students to get second set of uniforms
Staff Reporter
| Tenders for new shoes and school bags will also be finalised |
— Photo: S.S. KUMAR 
IN RAPT ATTENTION: A section of students at the function organised at the Corporation Girls Higher Secondary School, Saidapet, in Chennai on Wednesday.
CHENNAI: Students of schools, run by the Chennai Corporation, will get their second set of free uniforms in January. The tenders for new shoes and school bags will also be finalised soon, according to Mayor M. Subramanian.
Speaking at a function organised at the Corporation Girls Higher Secondary School in Saidapet here on Wednesday, he said the civic body was eager to translate all its plans regarding school education.
The function was organised to give away identity cards to teachers, medals to meritorious students and biscuits to students in classes X and XII, staying back in school in the evenings for special classes. “We had made provisions for these in the Corporation’s budget ,” he added. Pointing to various initiatives taken in Corporation schools, he said the quality of education in Corporation schools has been improving, boosting the overall pass percentage of Corporation school students.
It was decided to give students biscuits, after the Corporation got to know that a section of students did not like the fruit bread being provided. “We were looking at other alternatives and then decided on biscuits since all children like them,” the Mayor said. More than Rs.31 lakh was spent on the initiative covering over 15,000 students, he added.
The medals for students securing the first three ranks in terminal examinations and the identity cards cost nearly Rs.3 lakh and about Rs.2 crore is being invested in the new set of uniforms, Mr. Subramanian added.
