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Standard of education in Tamil Nadu improved after vacancies filled: Chief Minister

Erode, May 13 (PTI) Tamil Nadu chief minister K Palaniswami today said the standard of education in the state has improved after government filled up vacancies of teachers.

He stated this at a function at a school here today.

The chief minister said upgradation of elementary schools to high schools and the latter to higher secondary schools has reduced the number of dropouts in the district.

The chief minister said the number of state highways in the district would be converted to four-lane roads.

Among them were the Mettupalayam-Sathyamangalam, Gobichettipalayam-Chitode, Bhavani Mettur-Thoppur, Erode-Karur; and Erode- Tiruchengodu roads, he said.

He also said the ruling AIADMK has been giving a lot of importance to agriculture. A total of 1,519 tanks and ponds would be distilled so water could be stored for irrigation.

The Chief Minister announced the birth anniversary of Kongu leader Kalingarayan would be observed every year as he was instrumental in developing 20,000 acres of dry land to wetland by digging the Kalingarayan canal.

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The Supreme Court on Monday deferred the hearing of Article 35A that empowers the Jammu and Kashmir state legislature to define “permanent residents” of the state, by three months.

Centre told the bench that the matter is very sensitive and since the interlocutor is making efforts for a solution, the court should not pass any interim order at present as it would be counter productive.

Four petitions demanding to scrap Article 35A in Jammu and Kashmir were listed before a bench of Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra and Justices AM Khanwilkar and DY Chandrachud. The main petition was filed by ‘We the Citizens’, a Delhi-based NGO in 2014.

Former IB officer Dineshwar Sharma was appointed as the interlocutor for Jammu and Kashmir recently to come up with a solution for the long-pending Kashmir issue. The new interlocutor will be expected to find some headway towards finalising a solution before the Supreme Court hears the case again.

Senior advocate Ranjit Kumar, counsel to a petitioner, countered and said: “It is a strange situation in J&K as persons from Pakistan can come and settle in the state under a law but those who have been staying for generations cannot even get a government job.”

SC asked parties to complete pleadings in the case and posted it for hearing on August 6.

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