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Students appeal for permission to write final examination

Staff Reporter

ERODE: "We belong to middle-class and poor families. Our father, mother, brothers and sisters are dependent on us, so the collector may take steps to arrange for us to write the Teacher Training final examination and also transfer all the 52 students to the Perundurai DIET."

This was the plea made by 52 students of a private teacher-training institute at Sanathikkalmedu village near Ammapet.

They came to the Collectorate on Monday and submitted petitions to the Collector, seeking his intervention in the matter.

It may be recalled that in the private teacher-training institute, 52 more students had been admitted in addition to the sanctioned strength of 50 students.

The additional students were not issued hall tickets to appear for the examination last year and so the students approached the Madras High Court and the Court orally instructed the Government to permit the 52 students to write the examination in some other institute, according to the students.

But the Government could not consider the instruction, they said.

So the students started a `stay-in strike' inside the institute, and a meeting to find a solution to the issue was conducted on Saturday before the Bhavani Tahsildar.

Suicide attempt

It ended without a decision being taken, as one of the students consumed some tablets and attempted suicide.

Collector T. Udhaychandran received the petition and asked the students about the health of Sindhuja, the student who had attempted suicide.

The students wanted the collector to transfer them to Perundurai DIET, a Government teacher-training institute and allow them to write the two-year examinations in one instalment.

Some of the parents told the Collector that they had borrowed large sums of money in order to pay donation and fees.

They requested the collector to instruct the Correspondent of the institute to repay the amounts to the 52 students. Mr. Udhaychandran assured that he would do the needful for the students.

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