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Rs.25 cr. for training Adi Dravida youths: Minister

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All programmes evoke good responses, A. Tamilarasi adds

Rs.2 crore to conduct special coaching classes to improve English communication skills

Declares open classroom block at Poovanipattu primary school

ARIYALUR: The State Government has allocated Rs.25 crore for imparting specialised job-oriented training to youths belonging to the Adi Dravida community, Minister for Adi Dravida and Tribal Welfare, A. Tamilarasi has said.

Speaking at a function to declare open the classroom block constructed under Sarva Siksha Abiyan (SSA) programme at the Government Adi Dravida Welfare Primary School in Poovanipattu village near Andimadam on Friday, Ms. Tamilarasi said that the fund is being utilised for imparting training in catering, information technology, food preservation methods, and for facing the civil services and air-hostess examinations. All the training programmes have evoked overwhelming responses.

The department was providing Rs.25,000 each to 100 candidates appearing for the Union Public Service Commission examinations every year. This year a total of 148 Adi Dravida youths are appearing for the Civil Services Main examinations and financial assistance was provided to all of them, Ms. Tamilarasi said.

This apart the department has also sanctioned Rs.2 crore to conduct special coaching classes to improve English communication skills of the inmates of the Adi Dravida hostels. Free uniforms worth Rs.13 crore was being distributed to the Adi Dravida students and Rs.31.5 lakh has been earmarked for the construction of hostels for the ITI students. She said that Adi Dravida hostels have been constructed on an outlay of Rs.63 lakh at Kurichikulam and J. Thatanoor in Ariyalur district.

Ms. Tamilarasi distributed financial assistance provided by THADCO to four women for purchase of farm land and loans to self-help groups. Ariyalur Collector V. M. Xavier Chrisso Nayagam presided. The Director of Adi Dravida Welfare, Thanga Kaliyaperumal, the Commissioner, Tribal Welfare, M. Malik Feroze Khan and S. S. Sivasankar, MLA spoke.

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