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Textbooks distributed to children

By Our Staff Reporter

PONDICHERRY, JAN. 5. The Education Department has started distributing textbooks to school children in Pondicherry and Karaikal who lost their books in the tsunami. The books are being distributed in the camps and in the coastal schools.

The Department earlier conducted a survey of the villages and the camps in these areas and sourced the books.

"Some of the parents have requested that we give the books to the children after the schools reopen on the 10th since they don't have any place to keep them," said G. Theva Needhi Dhas, Director of School Education. He told The Hindu that the schools were being reopened ahead of schedule in order to help the children forget their trauma.

"If they are with friends and in a different atmosphere, they will be able to return to normality sooner. For the first few days we have asked the teachers not to deal with heavy subjects and the examinations which are starting after the 17th, so the children will have time to pick up from where they left," added Mr. Dhas.

The part-time staff of the Jawahar Bal Bhawan has been deployed to take classes at the relief camps. They will be teaching both creative and performing arts and help divert the minds of the children. The department has also deputed teachers, who were trained in counselling to the camps in Karaikal. T.V. Mathews, a psychologist, will train about 160 teachers of coastal schools in Pondicherry and Karaikal in handling the children.

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