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LAB CHECK: Information and Publicity Minister Parithi Ilamvazhuthi, examines the equipment at the newly-inaugurated labs at the Corporation school on Rottler Street in Egmore on Monday. — PHOTO: R. SHIVAJI RAO
CHENNAI : Minister for Information and Publicity Parithi Ilamvazhuthi inaugurated development projects worth more than Rs. 2.3 crore here on Monday. He inaugurated additional classrooms in Chennai Corporation schools, a solid waste management complex, a public toilet and junior engineer and ward member offices in his Egmore constituency. More than 500 laboratories and classrooms are slated to be built for Corporation schools over the next two years, Commissioner of Chennai Corporation M. P. Vijayakumar said.
New laboratories
The Minister declared open laboratories at the school on Rottler Street, which cost Rs. 60.7 lakh. Speaking to students, he said that an old scheme of awarding board examination toppers tours to developed countries would be revived this year. Recalling his education in a Corporation school, he said that more than one lakh students were being educated in around 330 Corporation schools in the city. Mr. Vijayakumar said that the Corporation had been given instructions to fulfil all school requirements, including laboratories, classrooms and teachers. Additional classrooms worth more than Rs. 1.06 crore were inaugurated at Corporation schools on Veerasamy Street (Ward 105), Rottler Street (Ward 102), Kandasamy Street and Devaraj Mudali Street (Ward 98). Four noon meal centres were inaugurated at Mayor Sathyamurthy Road (Ward 104) and Samy Reddypuram and Santhosh Nagar (Ward 105) at a total cost of Rs. 27.5 lakh. A public toilet on Sachidanandam Street worth Rs. 7.9 lakh, the offices of the junior engineer and ward member at Manickam Street, Choolai, worth Rs. 4.5 lakh and the Longs Garden solid waste management complex on Ayyasamy Street, Pudupettai, costing Rs. 23.85 lakh were the other projects inaugurated by the Minister. Head of the Education Standing Committee Narayanan, Opposition leader in Corporation Council C. V. Malaiyan, and other council members participated in the event.
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