“Those who do not sell their movies to Red Giant are being threatened and given all sorts of trouble by the DMK government. The company has a monopoly in the film industry,” AIADMK leader D Jayakumar said.
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ERODE: The school education department is yet to decide on conducting offline classes for students of class 1 to 8, school education minister K A Sengottaiyan said here on Thursday.
“We will take a decision on this after discussing with the chief minister,” the minister told reporters after inaugurating Rs 2 crore worth of projects in Nasiyanur and Naruvalur panchayats in Gobichettipalayam assembly segment.
The minister said about 98.5% of students were attending classes across the state. He said the school education department was taking steps to issue ‘tabs’ to students of class 6,7 and 8 instead of laptops.
The school education minister reiterated that public examination dates for classes 10 and 12 would be announced after the dates for assembly election were announced.
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ERODE: Tamil Nadu school education minister K A Sengottaiyan confirmed that the schools should have to be open six days a week for classes X and XII. “The schools can remain closed only on the government holidays and Sundays,” he said.
The decision was taken at a meeting chaired by the school education minister. Following the meeting, the minister told the reporters that a total of 92 % of the students came to the schools.
Mentioning the Tamil Nadu assembly election, the minister said that dates for boards will be decided after election dates are declared. “We will announce the board examination dates once the ECI declares the election date,” he confirmed.