New Delhi: Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will be visiting Tamil Nadu on September 5, 2022. The Delhi CM and the Tamil Nadu CM will together launch three crucial projects including monthly monetary aid for female students, the launch of 26 Schools of Excellence, and 15 Model Schools. Tamil Nadu School Education Minister Thiru Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi visited Delhi to extend the invitation to CM Arvind Kejriwal today.

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Accepting the invitation, CM Arvind Kejriwal said, "We will together be launching 3 crucial projects on September 5 — 1. Puthumai Penn Thittam where Tamil Nadu Govt will pay Rs 1,000/month to female students as a higher education aid. 2. Schools of Excellence - Like Delhi, Tamil Nadu Govt is now launching 26 state-of-the-art SOEs. 3. Model Schools - 15 schools are being upscaled to offer professional courses in the state."

On April 1, 2022, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin had come to Delhi and visited the Delhi government's schools and mohalla clinics and was deeply impressed by Delhi's model of education. During that time, he expressed his willingness to develop model schools in his state on the lines of Delhi and invited Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to see them.

The Delhi CM accepted the invitation of visiting Tamil Nadu and said that it would be a matter of great honor for him. In this context itself, his education minister, Thiru Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi came to Delhi today to invite CM Arvind Kejriwal for the launch of the Puthumai Penn Thittam scheme, besides 26 Schools of Excellence and 15 Model Schools.

Schools of Excellence, Tamil Nadu

Twenty-six schools across the state’s key corporations and municipalities have been selected to be transformed into Schools of Excellence.

These 26 schools will act as platforms that will groom talent, nurture the spirit of sportsmanship and diligence while providing exposure to internal and external opportunities, thereby broadening the horizons for students and teachers.

In order to lay a strong foundation for realizing the vision, the infrastructure of Schools of Excellence will be upgraded to meet the needs of the learning outcomes.

Each of the schools will be provided with well-equipped classrooms as per the need defined by the pupil-teacher ratio. The smart classrooms and Tamil Nadu’s unique initiative of networked hi-tech labs will provide the avenues to groom our students through formative and summative assessments along with digital content to steepen their learning curves.

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Puthumai Penn Thittam

Recognizing that the enrolment ratio of girl students from government schools in higher education is very low and to promote higher education among girls belonging to economically weaker families, Tamil Nadu Government’s Moovalur Ramamirtham Ammaiyar Marriage Assistance scheme is being transformed as the Moovalur Ramamirtham Ammaiyar Higher Education Assurance Scheme.

All girl students who studied from Classes 6 to 12 in Government schools will be paid Rs.1,000/- per month directly into their bank account till the uninterrupted completion of their undergraduate degree, diploma, and ITI courses.