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Forum for tribals opens Chennai chapter

Staff Reporter

CHENNAI: The Friends of Tribal Society, an all-India organisation attempting to bring tribal communities into the mainstream, inaugurated its Chennai chapter here on Friday.

Training teachers, for single-teacher schools in villages without government schools, and health workers from the communities are the primary tasks of the organisation. Schools with minimal infrastructure preparing students to enter at the fourth or fifth standard of mainstream schools are run at an approximate cost of Rs. 15,000 a year. While several such schools have been run in Tamil Nadu from 1999 onwards with the support of the other chapters, the inauguration of a Chennai chapter would help raise funds for schools from within the State. Field workers who joined the organisation after completing schooling under the programme were present.

National-level office bearers of the organisation said that there were 420 schools in six districts in the State currently. It hoped to have one-lakh schools in the country by 2011. Office bearers of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and several industrialists were here for the inauguration of Society's Chennai chapter. The society can be reached at ftschennai@yahoo.com

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