The school students in TN will be given 10 items for free on time !!
Posted on: 11/Oct/2022 9:44:47 AM
In the coming academic year, the government of Tn would be distributing freebies for the school students on time. It is well known that in this year the TN govt distributed the freebies a little late and there were many complaints also regarding that.
There are 10 items that the TN govt would usually distribute to the school students free of cost before the reopening of schools and these are textbooks, notebooks, uniforms, footwear, atlas, crayon, colour pencils, geometry boxes, laptops and woolen sweaters etc.
In this year, the distribution of these items were delayed in the government and in the government aided schools in TN due to delay in procuring the items.
A senior official belonging to the school education department admitted about the delay in distributing the freebies to the school kids. He spoke about how clear instructions have been given to all the authorities concerned to buy these items before March 2023. By this, it would be possible to distribute the freebies to these school kids during the summer vacations well before the reopening of the schools.
Tenders have been floated to buy items like school bags, footwear, colour pencils etc and additional bids would be floated to buy school uniforms and various other items etc.
Poor quality of school uniforms:
It must be taken into account that there were some complaints regarding the quality of school uniforms distributed wera of poor quality. The senior officer mentioned that this year there must not be any complaints regarding the freebies quality from students and parents and instructions were given by the TN government. He added that the special teams have been formed in every district belonging to TN to make sure that the freebies provided were of good quality.
Point is that priority would be given to the distribution of important freebies like textbooks, notebooks and school uniforms as they would benefit more than 70lakhs students. He confirmed that the distribution of other free items would also be done on time.
More than Rs 4000 crores is being spent by the TN govt on student welfare scheme and this includes provision of free noon meals for the school students etc.
