2.24 lakh students, teachers and staff in Coimbatore get cakes for Children’s Day

Coimbatore Minister for Backward Classes Welfare V. Sampath Kumar distributed cakes and Children’s Day greeting cards to students at Ramasamy Nagar Corporation High School in Coimbatore on Friday (November 13) as part of the State-wide celebrations. In Coimbatore district, 2,13,879 students in 1,369 government and government-aided schools, 10,402 teachers and 665 non-teaching staff members were covered under the initiative, taking the total number of recipients to 2,24,946.

The initiative covered students from LKG to Class XII in government and government-aided schools. The cakes were dispatched to schools across Coimbatore district over the previous two days. Since November 14 is a holiday, schools were instructed to distribute the cakes on November 13, along with Children’s Day celebrations.

Headmasters were also advised to ensure that the cakes were stored safely until distribution. A special committee comprising the district Collector, Chief Educational Officer and officials of the Civil Supplies Department was constituted to oversee the distribution.