TN schools reopen after long summer break

The state government, aided, and private schools across Tamil Nadu re-opened on Monday following an extended summer vacation and Chief Minister M K Stalin wished the students and teachers a great and productive academic year.

Following heatwave conditions throughout the state and owing to the Lok Sabha elections, the results of which were declared on June 4, the government had deferred the reopening of state board schools.

As students returned to their classrooms today, teachers in certain schools received the children with chocolates.

Wishing the students a great and productive academic year ahead, the chief minister said in a post on 'X', ''I hope that parents and teachers will pay attention to the mental and physical well-being of the students who return to the classroom and make sure that the students are motivated to take delight in reading and sports.'' School Education Minister Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi, who inaugurated an Aadhaar registration centre on a school campus, said smart classrooms have been established in about 20,000 schools in the state and the remaining 17,000 schools will get the facility by this month-end.

Along with MSME Minister T M Anbarasan, Poyyamozhi distributed textbooks and notebooks to students at a higher secondary school in Alandur. Later, the School Education Minister distributed books to the students at Jaigopal Garodia Girls Higher Secondary School, Nanganallur, here.

''On the first day of the academic year, we started the programme of encouraging the students to take up postal savings to create interest in small savings. It was followed by the second phase of the Aadhaar enrollment camp at A J S Nithi Higher Secondary School, Alandur,'' Poyyamozhi said in a post on 'X'.

Tirunelveli district Collector K P Karthikeyan distributed free texts and notebooks to the students at the Rediarpatti Government Higher Secondary School.

Similarly, Madurai district Collector M S Sangeetha distributed books to the students of Oomachikulam Government Middle School and launched the Aadhaar registration camp and postal savings programme.