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- Friday, July 17, 2020 0
While Chennai has been reporting a decline in cases and recorded 1,157 new ones on Thursday, neighbouring Tiruvallur reported an alarmingly high tally of 526 cases. Senior officials from the Directorate of Public Health and Preventive Medicine said that increased testing and intensified contact tracing have led to more cases in the district. The officials added that increased transportation to Chennai from the district is also responsible for a spike in the district.
Meanwhile, Chengalpattu and Kancheepuram saw a slight decline reporting 179 and 67 cases respectively. Madurai also witnessed a slight decline with 267 cases while Kanniyakumari reported 146 and Dindigul recorded 126 new cases. A total of 69 deaths were reported on Thursday, of which 25 were in private hospitals and 44 in government hospitals. Of the 69, 63 had underlying co-morbid conditions, while six died after developing COVID-19 pneumonia. The death toll in TN is 2,236. With the total recoveries presently at 1,07,416, there are 46,714 active cases in the State.
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- Friday, July 17, 2020 0
Also, Class 12 students from more than 10 districts put up a good show by securing more than 90 per cent in overall pass percentage. Last year, only six districts crossed 90 per cent.
However, in Chennai, the students’ overall pass percentage dipped a little. Accordingly, this year, the pass percentage in the capital city was 87.05 per cent compared to last year’s 87.54.

On the improvement in performance by government schools, a senior official from the School Education Department told DT Next that to ensure the development of transactional skills of teachers, in-service training has been imparted, especially on the revised curriculum, syllabus and textbooks. “In 2019-20 a seven-day training was given to as many as 55,639 graduate teachers and 33,956 post-graduate teachers at a cost of Rs 18 crore,” he added.

Stating that guidance and counselling were important components of services to students to help them to face the new syllabus and exam challenge, the official said: “As many as 1,49,037 students from 984 schools across the State were provided with psychological counselling this year. Of this, 7,892 students received individual counselling.

Tamil Nadu Teachers Association president PK Ilamaran attributed the success to the Education Department authorities. “They worked hard by introducing micro-teaching. Apart from counselling, individual classes were conducted for poor performers in many government schools, especially in the rural areas,” he said.
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- Friday, July 17, 2020 0
In this context, the Tuition Fee Setting Committee for Private Schools has advised that the new tuition fees will come into effect for about 6000 private schools which have completed three years of tuition fees. Schools are also advised to apply for the recommendations on the Fee Setting Committee's website from the 20th.
Information has been sent to 6000 schools through the respective district primary education office.
Accordingly, private schools are required to record details of tuition fees charged so far, including tuition fees to be raised in line with current expenses and expected tuition fees.

The Fees Committee will then call the school administrators in person, review their recommendations and determine the new tuition fees for the next three academic years. These new fees will be determined before school starts in the coming academic year.

Each time tuition fees are restructured, they are raised by at least 15 percent over existing fees. Fees are raised up to a maximum of 25 per cent for large schools with various infrastructure facilities.

Therefore, it is said that tuition fees may be raised by at least 15 percent this time around.
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- Friday, July 17, 2020 0
The state of Tamil Nadu on Friday has recorded 4,538 fresh positive cases of COVID 19, taking the total toll to 1,60,907.
Today, 3,391 people have been discharged taking the total number of recovered cases to 1,10,807. The active cases of COVID 19 in the state stands at 47,782.

Today, 79 people have succumbed to the virus, taking the total death toll to 2,315. As many as 48, 669 samples were tested today.

Totally 18,31,304 samples were tested in the state. There are around 109 covid 19 testing facilities in Tamil Nadu.

Chennai continued to see a decline in graph, with 1243 positive cases and 1349 recovered. The second highly infected district, Madurai saw 263 new cases taking a total 3043 active cases.
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- Friday, July 17, 2020 0
Surendran Natarajan of 'Karuppar Koottam' has been ordered to stay in judicial custody for 30 days.
After bringing him to Chennai from Puducherry he was presented before Magistrate Roslin at her residence Royapuram.

Earlier, Senthilvasan who too belonged to the channel was arrested on Wednesday night.

The controversial video on Lord Murugan's hymn 'Kandha Shashti Kavasam' in the Youtube channel received opprobrium from various sections of the society.

Tamil Nadu BJP lodged a complaint against Surendran, who hosted the series of shows that showed Hindu faith in bad light.
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- Friday, July 17, 2020 0
The petition was filed on behalf of the Federation of Private Schools seeking to quash the Tamil Nadu government's order regarding tuition fees.
The case was called for hearing today. Government pleader said that the schools were permitted to collect the tution fee from the parents in 3 installments. 25pc during lock down period, while other 25 pc can be collected after school reopens and another 25pc can be collected after 3 months of reopening of school. The remaining 25 pc is left to the discretion decision-making committee of the respective schools.

Mean while the petitioner's counsel contented that the fee has to be collected for the purpose of salary payment to the teachers who conduct regular online sessions to the students. He also urged the Court to pass orders permitting the schools to collect 80 per cent of the tuition of which 50pc shall be paid in the first installment.

Considering the plea of the petitioner and respondent's counsel, the Madras High Court has passed an order directing the un-aided private schools to collect up to 40 per cent of the tuition fees for the current academic year on or before August 1 and another 35 per cent of the tuition fees can be recovered after 2 months. The above orders shall be enforced until further orders from the Court.
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- Friday, July 17, 2020 0
Naam Tamizhar Katchi's co-ordinator Seeman commented on the Kandha Shashti Kavasam controversy on Friday.
He opined " 'Forefather' Murugan's praise and fame that has spread all over the world cannot be tarnished by any derogatory statements."

The director turned politician further said that vituperative statements in the name of rationalism and fanning anti-Aryan sentiments would only be counter-productive and won't do any good to Tamil and Tamil people.
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