‘Our teachers will train Malaysian Tamil instructors’

“Malaysian government’s representatives stressed on this during their meeting last month with the Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami. We are in the process of listing our best teachers for this cause and will offer our teachers to impart training for Malaysian teaching faculty,” he said and added, “Similar requests had come from other countries as well.” 

On NEET special coaching centres, Sengottaiyan said a total of 54 teachers from the state had been sent to neighbouring Andhra Pradesh for NEET training. 

“This lot will begin training for 3,000 teachers here,” he said. He said that similar exercise will be undertaken for teachers as and when there is a change in syllabus and added that the syllabus revision underway in state would earn its distinction of being the best. 

“Steps are on to prepare the rolls to print ID cards for NEET coaching centres. The deadline for students to enroll for state-sponsored NEET coaching will be extended considering the difficulties,” he replied, when asked about the difficulties in registering for free coaching. 

Earlier, Sengottaiyan launched the scheme to donate rare books to the libraries in other countries, besides receiving rare books from the public. 

To mark the inauguration, Sengottaiyan received the rare books from Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami at the Secretariat. 

Rare books from individuals and private organisations were collected by the state and such donors would be honoured by the government, as per the scheme, an official press release here said. 

As a first step, one rare book would be donated to the Jaffna library, which was burnt by Sinhalese mob in the 1983 anti-Tamil riots. The books would be on topics of rare Tamil literarture and Tamil culture.