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Government `will ensure total enrolment of children'

By Our Staff Reporter

PONDICHERRY, SEPT. 6. The Pondicherry Education Minister, K. Lakshminarayanan, said here today that the Government would do its best to ensure total enrolment of school children at the elementary level under the Sarva Siksha Abhiyan programme.

Distributing mementos to each of the 518 teachers of the government high and higher secondary schools who had produced 100 per cent passes in the subjects they had handled in the SSLC and the higher secondary (standard 12) public examinations in 2003, Mr. Lakshminarayanan said the monetary value of the memento would be enhanced to at least Rs. 1000 next year.

The Development Commissioner-cum-Secretary to Education, B.V. Selvaraj, said the Centre had sanctioned Rs. 10.5 crores under the Sarva Siksha Abhiyan scheme for Pondicherry to ensure that all children had elementary education by 2010.

Cohesive working

The State budget had earmarked 12 per cent of the total allocations for education.

Mr. Selvaraj suggested that work of a high order in the civil services should be recongised as is done in the defence services where distinguished servicemen were conferred medals.

He said the Pondicherry administration had decided to introduce `star teacher' titles to honour teachers of government schools producing 100 per cent pass successively for three years in public examinations.

Where the result percentage was 95 and more in rural schools for three years in succession, `star teacher' awards would be presented to teachers.

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