TN to provide colour TV sets to Govt schools

Tiruchirapalli, Aug 8 (UNI) Tamil Nadu Government has decided to provide colour television sets and DVD players to all Government higher secondary and panchayat union primary and middle schools in the State within a month under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) scheme in order to reinforce Activity Based Learning (ABL), according to M P Vijaykumar, Honorary Advisor to SSA .

Talking to newspersons here today, Mr Vijaykumar said the television sets and DVD players would be supplied to 30,000 schools to improve the quality of teaching through the audio-visual mode, and for easy understanding, education department had brought out a compact disc on simple English in bilingual mode to promote listening and speaking skills of the children.

As a pilot measure, the CDs would be given to ten schools in each block for testing on Friday, he added.

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