₹9000 to each govt school to conduct Tamil forum

₹9000 to each govt school to conduct Tamil forum

Tamil language and to inculcate the spirit of the same among government school students, the school education department has released Rs 5.60 crore overall and Rs 9,000 per school in the State.

The Tamil forums have been set up followed by the notification issued in the Assembly in April 2022 by the Ministry of Tamil Offi- cial Language and Tamil Culture while announcing the grant request of the Ta- mil Development depart- ment for 2022-2023. "To create interest in the antiquity of the Tamil lan- guage and literature among students studying in gov- ernment schools and to learn about the Tamil schol- ars who were dedicated to Tamil, an amount of Rs 9,000 will be provided. For this, a fund allocation of Rs 5.60 crore will be made as ongoing expenditure," stat- ed the circular from the ed- ucation department.

To conduct the forum and improve the functioning in 6,218 government schools, the funds to be effectively utilised. According to the circular, the Tamil forums, which should conduct three major events in an academ- ic year, have released the list of schools in the district by the respective Tamil De- velopment department. There are 162 schools in the city, 100 schools in Kan- cheepuram, 225 schools in Tiruvallur and 143 schools in Chengalpattu, listed to conduct the forums