Efforts on to put 1,495 dropout students back in schools in Virudhunagar district

Virudhunagar Collector, V.P. Jeyaseelan, interacting with a dropout student during a field visit in Virudhunagar on Saturday.
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Efforts are on by Virudhunagar district administration to bring 1,495 identified dropouts back to schools.

Virudhunagar district Collector, V.P. Jeyaseelan, said that the administration has been taking steps to ensure that all students, admitted in the Panchayat union schools complete their school and also to admit them in colleges.

“As part of these efforts, the district administration has taken steps to put back all dropout students back in schools. The officials are making door-to-door visits and listen to their problems so that they could come back to schools,” the Collector said after making visiting five dropout students in Virudhunagar municipal and panchayat areas.

Based on the reasons cited by the students and their parents, the officials provide them solutions and guidance to ensure that they return to school.

The families are given required medical care, financial assistance and promised of special coaching classes to encourage students. Similarly, migrant workers are also given due guidance and told about importance of education.

A team of officials, at the district level, are visiting the students and their parents. Among them 61 students are in Kariyapatti panchayat union, eight studnets in Aruppukotai block, 103 in Sattur, 10 in Srivillliputtur, 47 in Vembakottai, 22 in Sivakasi, 97 in Rajapalayam and 105 students in Virudhunagar blocks.

Project Director (District Rural Development Agency), Additional Superintendent of Police, Revenue Divisional Officers, Assistant Director (Panchayats), Deputy Collectors, Deputy Superintendents of Police and Tahsilars are part of the 80-member officials involved in this task.