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Teachers’ federation urge for the reopening of primary schools
The Hindu
The Tamil Nadu Primary School Teachers’ Federation has appealed to the State government to reopen classes for primary schools at the earliest, as the COVID-19 imposed lockdown for the last 18 months h
The Tamil Nadu Primary School Teachers’ Federation has appealed to the State government to reopen classes for primary schools at the earliest, as the COVID-19 imposed lockdown for the last 18 months have badly affected the education of children of primary classes. A resolution to this effect was taken at the federation’s executive committee meeting held in Madurai on Sunday. The pandemic had led to closure of schools for the last one and a half years. As a result, the education of the students, especially that of the primary school students, has been affected.![](/newspic/picid-1269750-20250217064624.jpg)
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.