Virudhunagar Collector, V.P. Jeyaseelan, giving away textbooks to students at a school in Virudhunagar after Government and aided schools reopened on Monday.
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With the reopening of all Government and aided-schools, students and teachers were back to their routine academic life after the summer vacation on Monday.

The teachers accorded warm welcome to the students with flowers at many schools.

Virudhunagar district has got 992 Government schools and 489 aided schools.

The schools had been cleaned up and all facilities given a facelift.

Distribution of textbooks, uniform and notebooks began at the schools on the day one.

The class teachers distributed them to the students who had turned up.

Virudhunagar Collector V.P. Jeyaseelan distributed the textbooks, notebooks, uniform and other stationery goods to the students at Virudhunagar Thangammal Periyasamy Municipal Girls’ Higher Secondary School in the presence of Virudhunagar MP B. Manickam Tagore and Virudhunagar MLA A.R.R. Srinivasan.

The Collector said that among all the means to earn money, the easiest ways were through education and hard work.

“Even an average student of the higher secondary school could reach higher places, if he puts complete attention in one hour of study every day,” the Collector said.

Virudhunagar municipal Chairperson, R. Madhavan, was present.