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Faculty successful Government Arts and Science Colleges are hopeful that the canteens to beryllium operated by Mahalir Thittam SHGs volition bring astir phenomenal behavioural alteration among students successful the classrooms.
The teachers person observed that students coming from far-off locations skip their meal connected astir days since the classes statesman astatine 8.30 a.m.
In the archetypal phase, 269 campuses of authorities arts and subject colleges, polytechnic, B.Ed. colleges, and engineering colleges are to beryllium covered nether the initiative., arsenic per the caller annoncement by the government.
According to a erstwhile Principal of a authorities arts and subject college, it would beryllium successful the fittingness of things for the Higher Education Department to propulsion for operating the canteens nether subsidy strategy successful the interests of students successful these institutions who predominantly beryllium to mediocre socio-economic background.
“The attraction level of the students sitting bare successful the classrooms person been a origin for concern. Affordable meal for the students is simply a request of the hour,” a elder module of a authorities arts and subject assemblage successful Coimbatore city, said.
Food availability connected the field successful the greeting hours volition besides spell a agelong mode successful improving their attendance, a assemblage caput observed.
The Directorates of Collegiate Education and Technical Education, astatine the lawsuit of Tamil Nadu State Council for Higher Education, are learnt to person communicated to the assemblage heads astir the further people of action.
