Chennai, Tamil Nadu Live News Today: The Tamil Nadu government on Monday inaugurated the Schools of Excellence (SoE) and Model Schools Scheme, which is broadly based on schools in Delhi with upgraded infrastructure. The event was held at the state-run Bharathi Women’s College, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal launched the scheme here along with M K Stalin. As many as 26 Schools of Excellence and 15 Model Schools are covered under the scheme. ‘Thagaisal Palligal’ and ‘Mathiri Palligal’ are the official Tamil names for the SoE and Model Schools.
Stalin also launched the Moovalur Ramamirtham Ammayar memorial ‘Puthumai Penn’ (Modern Woman) Scheme, under the scheme, all girl students who studied from classes 6 to 12 in government schools would be paid Rs 1,000 per month directly into their bank account till the uninterrupted completion of their undergraduate degree, diploma and ITI courses. The students would be eligible for this assistance in addition to other scholarships. Through this programme, approximately 6,00,000 girl students could potentially benefit each year. For this new scheme, an amount of Rs 698 crore was allotted in the budget.
In other news, the Twitter account of Tamil Nadu Minister V Senthil Balaji was briefly hacked on Sunday as it was showing a different display name, and requested people to make use of crypto currencies. The account of the Minister for Electricity, Prohibition and Excise has over two lakh followers and that was restored later in the day.
Chennai, Tamil Nadu Live News Updates: CM M K Stalin inaugurates Pudhumai Penn scheme along with Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal; Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal in Chennai, to launch 26 schools of excellence and 15 model schools in state with Stalin; Covid updates from Tamil Nadu and more. Watch this space for all the latest updates from Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
Source: https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/chennai/chennai-tamil-nadu-live-news-updates-delhi-cm-arvind-kejriwal-in-chennai-schools-of-excellence-stalin-8131536/
