PUDUCHERRY: The Puducherry government has proposed to provide free laptops to 12th grade students in government schools, said Minister of N Rangasamy on Monday.
Speaking after unfurling tricolor during the celebration of liberation day, Rangasamy expressed the optimism that the scheme would benefit government 12 school class students, who attended online classes, to prepare well for public examination.
He said the government began to elongate RS 50,000 financial assistance to the families of each victim Covid-19 of the aid fund of the minister’s chairman starting September 8 will extend the financial assistance of the other 50,000 Rs to the families of each victim Covid-19 through the Department of Revenue and Disaster Management, he said .
The minister’s chairman said that around 70% of the population who qualified in the Union region had taken the Covid-19 vaccine and showed that people who died because the infection failed to take a vaccine.
The government has a vaccine stock and adequate people, who have not taken vaccines must advance without worrying to get Jab, he said.
Rangasamy believes to fill more than 10,000 posts lying empty in the government sector.
On this day in 1954 Puducherry joined the Indian Union which ended the French colonial government.
All selected members of the region voted on the French government and preferred to join the Indian Union in a referendum held at Keezhur on the outskirts of the region.
Of the 181 board members chosen from various Panchayats commune in Puducherry (21), Karaikal (8), Mahe (2) and Yanam (1) region, 174 council voted for the French government.
Seven board members did not participate in the referendum.
Furthermore, the French government in Puducherry ended on November 1, 1954.
However, it took almost eight years for the Puducherry formal merger with the Indian Union as the French parliament was ratified the ‘Cesi Agreement’ on August 16, 1962.
Since then Puducherry celebrates the independence day on August 16 Celebrating National Independence Day on August 15.