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Over 4.13 lakh miss and implicit 3.28 lakh lad students benefited under the Pudhumai Penn and Tamil Puthalvan programmes respectively during 2024-25, the State authorities said connected Sunday.
The Pudhumai Penn programme provides a monthly assistance of ₹1,000 to each of the miss students who implicit their schoolhouse acquisition betwixt Class VI and X astatine a government-run schoolhouse and prosecute higher education. The Tamil Puthalvan programme provides a monthly assistance of ₹1,000 to each of the students from Classes VI to X pursuing their studies successful Tamil mean astatine government-run schools and State-aided schools crossed the State.
An authoritative release on Sunday listed the government’s achievements in schoolhouse education. It said the the Chief Minister’s meal programme has been expanded to State-aided schools successful agrarian areas excessively from 2024-25. Over 7.97 lakh students successful Classes I to V benefited from astir 50,000 Illam Thedi Kalvi centres successful 2024-25. Under the Ennum Ezhuthum programme, astir 25.08 lakh students successful Classes I to V astatine implicit 37,700 government-run and State-aided schools were benefiting, it said.
Over 8,200 high-tech labs person been established successful authorities schools astatine a full outgo of ₹519 crore. Under the Perasiriyar Anbazhagan School Development Programme, a sum of ₹745 crore was allocated for ensuring amenities successful 440 schools and a sum of ₹200 crore for undertaking attraction enactment successful 2024-25, it said.
