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Aided colleges wary of policy of Kerala on unaided programmes
The Hindu
‘There is no level playing field, as aided colleges are preferred just for the name’
Managements of government-aided arts and science colleges are understood to be apprehensive of the impact that the policy of neighbouring Kerala will have on Tamil Nadu on the issue of government-aided colleges offering unaided programmes.
At the start of this academic year, the Kerala government had informed the Supreme Court of its decision not to sanction new self-financing courses in aided colleges.
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When fed into Latin, pusilla comes out denoting “very small”. The Baillon’s crake can be missed in the field, when it is at a distance, as the magnification of the human eye is woefully short of what it takes to pick up this tiny creature. The other factor is the Baillon’s crake’s predisposition to present less of itself: it moves about furtively and slides into the reeds at the slightest suspicion of being noticed. But if you are keen on observing the Baillon’s crake or the ruddy breasted crake in the field, in Chennai, this would be the best time to put in efforts towards that end. These birds live amidst reeds, the bulrushes, which are likely to lose their density now as they would shrivel and go brown, leaving wide gaps, thereby reducing the cover for these tiddly birds to stay inscrutable.