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Emphasis on health of school students

Shastry V. Mallady

— PHOTO: S. JAMES

Finding THE root cause: Thangam Thennarasu, right, Minister for School Education, watching a student being examined by a doctor at a dental camp in Madurai on Tuesday.

MADURAI: The State Government plans to launch projects to benefit students of Government and Corporation schools to make health and hygiene an integral part of school life, according to Thangam Thennarasu, Minister for School Education.

“One idea is to bring health and hygiene as a subject in schools to create awareness,” he said while talking to The Hindu at the launch of a dental care project for students of Corporation schools, here on Tuesday. He sa id that the intention of the Government was to equip school children with life skills also along with regular education and hence projects were being focused in that direction.

The project has been taken up in association with a private dental hospital here.

Speaking at the function, he said that awareness of dental care and hygiene was low in the State, compared to awareness created by eye check-up camps conducted regularly in all rural areas.

Sameer Bhat, Managing Director (India) of Nobel Biocare, launched distribution of toothpaste to school children. The Chief Educational Officers, R. Pandurangan and K. Sridevi, were present.

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