
Focus on education, skilling and research receives appreciation
The Hindu
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The focus on education, particularly supplementing learning what was lost over the past two years owing to the pandemic, has attracted much interest from educationists. The Union Budget has proposed to extend the ‘one class-one TV channel’ programme of PM eVIDYA from 12 to 200 TV channels to provide education in regional languages for Classes I to XII.
With the State already taking lessons to the students’ homes, teachers’ bodies wonder how the new proposal would pan out.

The Ottiyambakkam panchayat had an harrowingly difficult time keeping people from swimming in the deadly quarry with its protruding rocks under the water. There had been many deaths. And then nature intervened, and the fatal accidents stopped. An invasive, floating weed that is a bane of water sources everywhere, the water hyacinth is not just tolerated in the quarry but welcomed












