NEW DELHI: Like in schools, students of 19 industrial training institutes (ITIs) are attending morning assemblies from October 23. Besides conducting the assemblies, students also take part in a news reading session and listen to motivational speeches by the principals on diverse topics. The assembly ends with the national anthem.According to the government, the assembly is an initiative to promote...
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A TN prison literacy, numeracy and life skills programme aims to help more than 1,000 inmatesThe same hands that once committed a crime now hold a piece of white chalk and a slate, the fingers slowly form the letters of the alphabet. ‘Padam’, the word forms in Tamil. The ‘padam’ (meaning picture) of the inmates at the Madurai central prison enrolled in the Tamil Nadu government’s new special...