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Two marks to be given to students for each subject for planting trees
Posted on: 01/Feb/2019 10:12:46 AM
Trees play a huge role in the lives of human beings and planting trees is very important. Many steps are taken these days by the government to plant trees in Tamil Nadu. It is now brought out that the state government has planned to give 2 marks for each subject for every two trees planted by the students.
On Thursday, the school education minister, Mr. K.A. Sengottaiyan grabbed many eyeballs when he said that the above proposal was waiting for the approval from the chief minister of TN. The school education minister spoke about the presence of 50 lakh students in TN and said if every student plant 2 trees then TN would have 2.5 crores trees. He pointed out that the students must not restrict themselves to engineering or medicine and they must explore new streams of education.
The school education minister threw light on the fact that 80 lakhs engineering students were not employed and the state of TN has got 1.68 lakh degree holders without any jobs. He expressed his happiness about the new curriculum and said it would have 258 streams and the students could get huge benefit. The point is class 12 syllabus would be revised next year and it would have job oriented and business based topics. The school education minister finally spoke about government’s plan to introduce yoga and physical education from the next year. In as many as 100 schools there would be 100 playgrounds for the students.
It must be noted that the meeting had more than 150 school principals and the panellists were important personalities like Lalitha Balakrishnan , principal of MOP Vaishnava college, Jayanthi Radhakrishnan, managing director of Meenakshi group and Shri Muthukumar Educational Trust and Saundarya Rajesh, founder of AVTAR Group.
According to Saundarya, the percentage of women at workplace had reduced. She then spoke about the importance of skills outside the classrooms like gender intelligence, generational competence and socio-economic sensitivity. She hinted about the importance of use of technology. As per Lalitha Balakrishnan, technology must complement teaching methodologies through digital lectures and screening. She then spoke about the involvement of students, teachers and parents.
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