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ERODE: The school education department is yet to decide on conducting offline classes for students of class 1 to 8, school education minister K A Sengottaiyan said here on Thursday.
“We will take a decision on this after discussing with the chief minister,” the minister told reporters after inaugurating Rs 2 crore worth of projects in Nasiyanur and Naruvalur panchayats in Gobichettipalayam assembly segment.
The minister said about 98.5% of students were attending classes across the state. He said the school education department was taking steps to issue ‘tabs’ to students of class 6,7 and 8 instead of laptops.
The school education minister reiterated that public examination dates for classes 10 and 12 would be announced after the dates for assembly election were announced.
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COIMBATORE: City police commissioner Sumit Saran took the vaccine against Covid-19 on Thursday and tweeted a picture of him getting vaccinated. He said, “It (vaccine) is a great help for frontline workers.”
According to city corporation officials, the top cop took the shot at the SLM Urban primary health centre in the afternoon.
Health department officials said the number of frontline workers coming forward to get vaccinated was extremely low and hoped the top cop’s tweet would prompt more police officers to take the jab.
In total, 18,235 frontline and health workers have been vaccinated in the district since January 16. However, the number of vaccinated frontline workers is just 1,138, including 471 police officers and 667 revenue officials. The drive to vaccinate the frontline workers was started on February 2. The vaccine is being administered at all block primary health centres and eight urban primary health centres.
Erode: Fire broke out in Palamalai forest in the district on Monday night, destroying trees on around 30 acres. Forest department officials managed to put out the fire, which broke out at 9pm on Monday, by 4am on Tuesday.
Situated near Nerinjipettai in the district, Palamalai forest is home to a myriad of trees, including teak, and animals such as deer and sloth bear.
A forest officer said, “Local villagers alerted us about the fire around 10pm. We rushed to the spot immediately along with the fire and rescue services personnel.”
The team, however, couldn’t take fire tenders to the forest, because of lack of proper roads in the jungle. “We cleared dried leaves and trees in the immediate vicinity and thus managed to reduce the damage to the forest by curbing the fire from spreading,” the officer said.
Coimbatore: A woman and her daughter ended their life by jumping into a well at Uthuppalayam near Annur early Tuesday morning. Police said the woman took the extreme step after a fight with her husband over a family dispute.
The deceased were identified as S Dhanalakshmi, 38, and her daughter S Swetha, 17, both hailed from Adi Dravidar Colony at Uthuppalayam near Annur in Coimbatore district.
Some villagers of Uthuppalayam had gone to Chinnasamy Thottam to attend nature’s call and found a pair of sandals near the well. They informed Annur police who rushed to the well and found two dead bodies. The police alerted Annur fire and rescue services personnel who reached the spot and retrieved the two bodies. The preliminary inquiry revealed that Dhanalakshmi worked as a cook under the mid-day meal scheme at Kunnathurampalayam primary school and her daughter Swetha had completed Class XII. Her husband Selvam who works as a sanitary worker on consolidated payment at a TNSTC depot was