Vijay’s Day Out With School Kids In Kolathur

Chennai: Launching the State-wide celebration of Children’s Day in government and aided schools, Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay spent the day with the students of Madumanagar Chennai Corporation School in Kolathur Assembly constituency, personally distributing cakes to the students and others, on Friday.

Though November 14 is traditionally celebrated as Children’s Day in India, marking the birth anniversary of the country’s first Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, cakes and greeting cards were distributed in all the schools a day ahead of it as November 14, a Saturday, happens to be a closed holiday for schools.

In the first Children’s Day celebration for Vijay after he assumed office as Chief Minister, he personally presented the cakes to the students who stood up to accept it with a ‘thank you, sir’ inside their classrooms.

The greeting cards given to the children, along with the cake read: ‘All is well, be confident, along with the Children’s Day wishes from the Chief Minister.

Vijay, who was dressed in traditional attire of dhoti and shirt, even lifted a child and spoke to him, the visual of which went viral on social media.

Ministers and senior party leaders of the TVK took part in the Children’s Day celebrations in other schools, distributing cakes and also interacting with children.

According to reports, 61,84,566 pieces of cake, each weighing 45 grams, were distributed in the government and aided schools to students, teachers and other staff by the government that procured the cakes at a cost of Rs 9.27 crore through the Tamil Nadu Civil Supplies Corporation.

Spending time with the students of the Corporation School in Kolathur, Vijay interacted with them, their teachers and other staff of the schoolenquiring their grievances. The school was chosen because it falls under the jurisdiction of Kolathur Assembly constituency, whose representative V S Babu, has been hospitalized for some time.

Kolathur is adjacent to the Chief Minister’s constituency of Perumbur, which was also visited by Vijay on Friday for meeting people and accepting their complaints. Among the demands placed before the Chief Minister was one of retaining the conventional form of manual typewriting examination conducted by the government.

The Chief Minister visited the Perumbur constituency office and also inaugurated a ‘Vettri Library’ in the office premises, when petitions were given to him for the restoration of old-age benefits to the people and allocation of houses to the public.