The objective of universities should be to inculcate social justice and innovation and only such varsities have a bright future, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin said on Tuesday. For its part the state government has created a platform: ‘Naan Mudhalvan’ scheme aiming to make the Tamil Nadu students emerge successful in education and life, he said in his address at the 38th convocation of the Bharathidasan University here. ”My dream project Naan Mudhalvan Thittam has in two years ensured skilling to 29 lakh students and 32,000 teachers. Employment opportunities were created for 1.45 lakh youth in a year,” he noted. Another crucial factor that made education, especially professional education, accessible to poor students was the 7.5 reservation for state government school students. This paved the way for about 28,749 students of state government schools to pursue courses in engineering, medicine, agriculture, fisheries, and animal husbandry in three successive academic years, he said.
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