Coimbatore: State Adidravida welfare minister Kayalvizhi Selvaraj urged the officials to identify Adidravida and tribal students who are vulnerable to dropping out of schools and ensure that they don’t end their school education midway.
Holding a regional meeting with adidravida welfare department officials of Coimbatore, Erode, Tirupur and the Nilgiris here on Friday, she said that a crucial part of the effort to get them complete education is to ensure that schemes chalked out by the state government for their welfare like giving free bicycles, scholarships and free books are implemented properly.
She said that hostels in schools and colleges meant for advidravida students should be maintained properly. “Proper drinking water, toilet and electricity supply should be ensured for the hostels,” she said adding that places where new hostels are required should identified and efforts must be taken to build them there. Likewise, Advidravida colonies should be provided with all basic infrastructure like roads, streetlights and drinking water.