Jaya announces over Rs 500 cr initiatives for TN edu sector

Chennai, Aug 23 (PTI) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister JJayalalithaa today announced initiatives worth over Rs 500crore for higher education and school education in the state. Making a suo motu statement in the Assembly, she announcedsetting up of a centre to link all the universities andaffiliated colleges in cloud computing which will offer thestudents and teachers a range of services. The proposed centre will come up on the Anna Universitycampus here at an estimated cost of Rs 160 crore, she said,adding that a motor vehicle technical centre will also beestablished there to focus on research related to emissionmitigation and fuel consumption of automobiles. An auditorium, at a cost of Rs 50 crore, with a capacityto accommodate 5,000 people, will also come up in thetechnical university, she said. Jayalalithaa also announced a research uplift and trainingcentre on the Anna University campus which will coordinate allthe aspects related to obtaining a patent. Other announcements made by her for the higher educationsector include establishing training centres at Chennai andDharmapuri to help the Indian Engineering Services examinationaspirants and a scheme to send 100 government engineeringstudents on 15-day annual foreign study visits. Proposing new initiatives for the school education sector,Jayalalithaa announced construction of schools, upgradation ofthe existing ones, providing raincoats and boots to thestudents of hill areas, computerisation efforts, creation ofvirtual classrooms etc. PTI SA ROH BNRCDK