 Nearly
30 per cent of the schools in the country did not have separate
toilets for girls though the Sarva Siksha Abhiyaan scheme had
collected over Rs 15,000 crore last year, M Anandakrishnan,
chairman, Madras Institute of Development Studies, said in
Chennai recently.He was delivering the keynote address at the
fourth annual function of the Kuruvilla Jacob Initiative for
promoting excellence in school education organised by the
Kuruvilla Jacob Memorial Educational Trust at the Madras
Christian College Higher Secondary School, Chennai.
The Central and state governments together had
raised crores and crores of rupees on taxes for school education
but over Rs 24 crore was lying unutilised with various
governments, he lamented.
S Viji, managing director, Brakes India
Limited, and chairman of Sundaram Finance Limited, said the
Kuruvilla Jacob Initiative wanted to motivate schools to use
Total Quality Management methodologies. The initiative and the
CII Institute of Quality had developed two clusters of 10 Chennai
city corporation schools each. A third cluster will be set up
this year.
Another project had been launched with IIT
Madras to promote web-based education content for Chemistry and
Physics for classes VI to IX.
N Sankar, chairman, Sanmar Group, and N Murali,
managing director, The Hindu, lauded the efforts of the
initiative and recalled the services of Kuruvilla Jacob.
Heads of several schools received plaques and
certificates on the occasion.
R Rangaraj
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