PMK lauds state’s eduction schemes for northern dists

A day after DT Next published a story on state government initiative to improve educational parameters in 44 blocks with low pass percentage, Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) founder leader S Ramadoss on Tuesday appreciated the DMK government for coming forward to implement several schemes for improving education standards in the northern parts of the state.

Reacting on the subject the PMK leader lauded the government initiatives to raise the education parameters in 44 identified educationally backward blocks mostly spread over northern Tamil Nadu. In a statement, he said that the state government should realise that it was ‘just a tip of the iceberg.’

Expressing the importance to improve the educationally backward blocks by involving experts from IIT, Ramadoss said, “the government has identified only 44 educationally backward blocks and even if it identifies 200 such blocks, 90 per cent will be in the northern parts of the state.”

Claiming that there were several educationally backward blocks, which were yet to be identified, the PMK founder said that all the developments in the state should be equally distributed to all regions.

“Starting from Cuddalore and Ariyalur and in western districts such as Dharmapuri, Salem besides southern region of Ramanathapuram have not fully experienced the developments,” he claimed and added that the government should implement special schemes in those districts, which was already mentioned in the shadow budget released by the PMK recently.

He said both the state and the Centre should work together for the upliftment of the northern districts of Tamil Nadu by constituting a separate development board.