Justice Chandru launches distribution of The Hindu Year Book to UPSC aspirants

Former Madras High Court Judge K. Chandru connected Thursday launched the organisation of The Hindu Year Book for students preparing for the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) Examination.

Speaking astatine a gathering held to administer the publication to 100 toppers of the State government’s All India Civil Services Coaching Centre (AICSCC) connected Thursday, JusticeChandru said: “Students similar you should larn astir the assorted aspects of nationalist life, successful summation to speechmaking books,“ helium said. He besides pointed retired the value of speechmaking the editorials of The Hindu.

N. Ram, Director, The Hindu Group of Publications, said the accusation ecosystem had been polluted by misinformation and disinformation.

 “Misinformation means incorrect information, not motivated, not deliberate, happens each the clip to scholars, journalists, and truthful on. The mode to flooded it iscorrection; correcting arsenic soon arsenic possible. Misinformation tin besides origin harm, for example, what happened during Covid-19, [there was] each kinds of incorrect information. But disinformation is deadly. Disinformationis deliberate, it is motivated, this is scaledup connected societal media platforms,” helium said.

‘Vital for democracy’

Stressing the request for credible, reliable, and trustworthy information,Mr. Ram said: “This is important successful the enactment of nationalist opinion, which is captious for a democracy. Many scholars, thinkers, philosophers person agreed connected this, that we cannot person a functioning ideology unless nationalist sentiment is well-informed successful a reliable and trustworthy way.

“India has the largest fig of Facebookusers. India has the largest fig of Instagram users. India has the largest fig of WhatsApp users. This is weaponisedon the societal media platform, immoderate governmental enactment oregon idiosyncratic who does it, you tin spot it,” helium added.

AICSCC main T.S. Saravanan said that much than 150 candidates from Tamil Nadu had qualified for the UPSC Civil Services Personality Test this twelvemonth due to the fact that of State authorities schemes specified as Naan Mudhalvan.

“The results person improved. The exemplary property trial was conducted by the AICSCC connected December 19 and December 20, successful which a full of 111 aspirants participated. Key initiatives implemented by the State authorities this twelvemonth see residential coaching for each Tamil Nadu candidates who cleared the prelims. It hasintroduced part-time options for candidates who qualified for the Mains. We travel unified counselling crossed each centres, with standardised prelims coaching and communal classes and teststhrough Naan Mudhalvan.”

“Tamil Nadu introduced pre-examination grooming for SC/ST candidates successful 1966. A peculiar grooming institute was started by erstwhile Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi successful 1971 for BC and MBC students. Both institutes were merged and renamed AICSCC successful 2000. A caller field was built successful 2012 astatine Kanchi, R.A. Puram. The State authorities has sanctioned ₹62.5 crore for a caller task to establisha residential coaching centre with modern amenities to accommodate 500 aspirants.”

From The Hindu, its Editor Suresh Nambath; CEO L.V. Navaneeth; the curator of the publication Sambandan V.S.(former Associate Editor); Head - Magazines & Special Publications, Srinivasan R.; Assistant Vice President - Sales & Distribution Babu Vijay R.A.;and Head - Prepress Gurumurthy K.G. were present.