School students get cakes, greeting cards

DINDIGUL/THENI Ahead of Children’s Day on November 14, government and government-aided school students across Dindigul and Theni districts received cakes and greeting cards, and sweet pongal was served to children at anganwadi centres. In Dindigul, Director of National Health Mission, Tamil Nadu, and District Monitoring Officer for Dindigul district S. Aneesh Sekhar and Dindigul Collector Durgamoorthy distributed cakes and greeting cards to students at West Car Street Corporation Primary School, and sweet pongal to children at anganwadi centres. A total of 2,00,914 students across 1,638 government and government-aided schools in the district received cakes and greeting cards.

Cakes were also distributed to 9,909 teachers and 498 non-teaching staff. Sweet pongal was served to a total of 34,821 children across 2,035 anganwadi centers. Corporation Commissioner J. Prem Anand was also present.

In Theni, District Collector V. Sivakrishnamurthy distributed cakes and greeting cards to students at Government Model Higher Secondary School in Theni-Allinagaram.