In the future, there would be Teacher Recruitment Board or TRBs computer centers in the government schools in Tamil Nadu. The Tamil Nadu government has decided to establish the computer centres at the government schools itself so that students would also get benefited. An amount of Rs 30 crores would be spent for this. This is now considered as a boon for the school students also.

It was later mentioned by a senior officer belonging to the school education department that there has been a delay in organising written exams as many formalities were present. He added that the decision to set up computer based exam centers for competitive exams conducted by TRB came at this backdrop.

It must be noted that most of the recruitment process carried out by TRB would have competitive exams to qualify for the next level. The process of evaluation and  results declaration would become easy when compared to manual processes and this would happen only when computer based exams were conducted for all the exams.

Every year just 2 to 3 competitive exams are conducted by TRBs is known. Most of the time the computers would remain idle  when computer based exam centers are set up at TRB offices or at some selected places. It is now said that by setting the computer based exam centers in the high and higher secondary govt and govt aided schools, many students would be benefited.

The work would be carried out in different phases and in the first phase schools that have additional space in the campus would accommodate computers.Regional demand would decide on the number of computers that would be set up in the exam centres. For regular maintenance of these centres, persons would be employed.

At the centers, students study materials would also be uploaded in the computer systems. After high tech labs that already exist in the schools, the computer based exam centres would be an additional source. Point is that the students who are very eager to know about the competitive exams conducted by TRB would be able to learn at an early stage with the help of resources.

• Raw Rice Flour – 1kg
• Fried and powdered black gram pulses – 200 grams
• Fried grams powder – 200 grams
• Asafetida – 1 teaspoon
• Cumin Seeds – 2 teaspoons or sesame seeds – 2 teaspoong=fuls
• Coconut milk – 1 cup
• Salt – as required
• Oil – for frying
• Butter – 4 teaspoonfuls

A mixture of 4 cups of raw rice flour with 1 cup of fried and powdered black gram pulse will make crisp murukkus! For making soft murukkus, some butter can be added to the flour mix. Note that excess use of butter may lead to the murukkus breaking easily!

Making the black gram flour and the coconut milk at the house itself will make for tastier and healthier consumption!

• Gulab Jamun Mix – 500 grams
• Sugar – 700 grams
• Ghee (clarified butter) – as required
• Cardamom powder – as required
• Chopped walnuts – as required

Take the Gulab Jamun mix and the required water into a soft thick paste. Grease a vessel with oil and make balls of the Gulab Jamun mix and keep them in this vessel.

Now, take a vessel, add the chopped walnut pieces and add water and let boil Add the cardamom powder. Now, add half of the ghee (clarified butter). Now, add 2-3of the balls prepared and keep turning them until all sides get cooked!

Once the sugar syrup is ready, drop the fried Gulab Jamun Balls in the syrup and let them be in the syrup at least for 5 minutes. When you add the Gulab Jamun Balls even as the syrup is hot, the Gulab Jamun will be ready to eat as the syrup cools!

• Greengram – 200 grams
• Sugar – 400 grams
• Ghee (clarified butter – three-fourth cup
• Cashew Nuts – 10
• Wheat Flour – 4 teaspoonfuls
• Orange colour (Kesari Powder)  – a pinch
• Cardamom powder – half-a-teaspoonful

Keep some water in a vessel. Add the greengram to be immersed completely under the water. Let this boil.

In another vessel, add a cup of ghee, fry the cashew nuts and remove and keep aside. Now, add the wheat flour and refined flour to the ghee and fry. Once fried, add the boiled green gram and stir. Once the green gram gets completely mashed and mixes with the wheat flour and refined flour mix, add sugar and the kesari powder (orange colour) and keep stirring continuously. Once done, add the fried cashew nuts, cardamom powder and the remaining ghee and mix. Ashoka Halwa is ready!!

• Ghee (clarified butter – Half-cup – 55 grams
• Milk – half cup – 125 ml
• Milk Powder – 2 cups – 200 grams
• Powdered sugar – one-third-cup – 65 grams
• Cardamom powder – quarter teaspoon
• Cocoa powder – 2 tablespoons

Add a cup of ghee to a vessel. Add half a cup of boiled and cooled milk. Add a cup of the milk powder and stir. Once solidified, add one-third cup of powdered sugar. Now, add a quarter tablespoon of cardamom powder. When the mixture starts leaving the sides of the vessel, the Palgova is ready! In another vessel, add some ghee and half the Palgova. Shape it with a ladle.

Now, add the 2 teaspoons of cocoa powder. Now, add this mix on top of the Palgova remaining in the vessel. Now, keep this in the fridge for 3 hours.

Sweet, tasty, yummy Chocolate Burfi is ready!

• Basin (split gram flour) – 200 grams
• Sugar – 350 grams
• Oil – as required
• Cashew nuts and raisins – 20 each
• Cloves – 8
• Diamond sugar cubes – 15
• Green Camphor – a pinch
• Full cardamom – 5
• Milk – 1 teaspoon
• Orange colour (Kesari Powder) – a little

Add 50 ml of water to the sugar and heat. When it boils, add the teaspoon of milk, remove the dirt, add Kesari powder, make a syrup and remove it from the stove!

Now, add water to the split-gram flour and make a thick paste. Heat oil in a frying pan and using a `boondhi-making ladle`, drop the small balls of flour in the pan, fry and take out.

Now, add the fried balls to the syrup. Add cashew nuts, raisins, diamond sugar cubes, cardamom, and green camphor and stir the mix. When it is just hot to handle, make laddus on the palms!

• Basin (split gram flour) – 100 grams
• Sugar – 300 grams
• Ghee – 200 ml

In a wide vessel, add sugar and 50 ml water and dissolve the sugar in the water.  In another pan, heat the ghee. Once the sugar syrup reaches the pearl-forming thick, add a handful of split gram flour, and a little of hot ghee, alternately and keep stirring. When the mixture comes out crisp, remove it from the stove, and pour it on a butter-lined tray, When it cools to a certain level, make square or rhombus pieces cutting the mixture!

• Full green gram pulse – 200 grams
• Rice – 1 spoon
• Sugar – 300 grams
• Orange Powder (Kesari Powder) or Yellow colour powder – a pinch
• Cardamom essence or Rose Essence – a few drops
• Chopped cashew nuts a little
• Oil – as required (for frying)

Wash the black gram along with rice and soak in water for 30 minutes! Grind it in a grinder to a very thick batter. Add the food colour.  Now, in another vessel, add water to the sugar and let it dissolve. Heat till it becomes a paste consistency. Now, pour this on a wide basin or plate and add essence.

Make a hole in the milk sachet or a cloth piece, fill it with the mixture made, and squeeze this on a pan of hot oil to ring shapes. Remove from the pan once fried and drop into the syrup. Let them soak for 10 minutes and then remove them! Now, adorn this with chopped small pieces of cashew nuts!

The State Government of Tamil Nadu has issued a new Government Order. As per this, sales of addictive drugs for the wrong use and without a doctor`s prescription and sales receipt is a Violation of Rules as per the Medicines and Cosmetics Items Act 1940 and Medicines Act 1945!

It has been announced that the licenses of the medical shops which violate the above rule will be cancelled!

Further, the Tamil Nadu Medical Council has informed that the licenses of wholesale dealers who distribute addictive drugs for wrong use will also be cancelled!

The State Government of Tamil Nadu has ordered that all school buses must be fitted with sensors and monitoring cameras both in the front and back of the buses!

As one of the solutions to prevent the unfortunate deaths of school children getting caught under the bus or being hit by the bus, the State Government of Tamil Nadu has decided that all the school buses MUST be fitted with sensors and monitoring cameras both from the front and the back of the buses!

Subsequently, the draft for modifying the Motor Vehicles Act accordingly was released on 23rd June by the Home Secretary in the Government Journal. With the review and discussions on this draft presentation having been completed on 29th July, approval from the State Government of Tamil Nadu was obtained!

Following this, the Government Order to ensure that CCTV cameras and sensors are installed on the front and back of all school buses has been printed in the State Government Journal as well!