CHENNAI: The Chennai city police on Thursday removed more than 5,000 people from the Directorate of Public Instruction (DPI) campus where they had been staging a protest for 10 days. The protesters, including teachers and their families, were detained in seven marriage halls. The teachers were agitating in three groups. Their demands included equal pay for equal work and making temporary teachers...
Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi
CHENNAI: Government middle schools functioning with more than 100 students will get five subject teachers, school education minister Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi announced in the Tamil Nadu assembly on Friday.Of the 6,600 government middle schools, around 900 schools have more than 100 students studying from classes VI to VIII. These schools don’t have subject teachers.Replying to the debate on demand for...