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From Meera Suresh's Desk

The First batch of ATE candidates' examinations went off very smoothly. The Egmore Center in-charge Dr. Vetri Selvi (Annamalai University) visited on the first day of the examinations. She graciously accepted to handover the hall tickets to the candidates.

She also guided them in circling the Registration number in the answer sheets which was new to most of them. The four days of conducting of the examinations, taking the printouts of the question papers 10 minutes before the commencement of the exams and packing and sending off the examination papers on the same day were challenging as well as exciting. The seating arrangements were changed everyday much to the irritation and excitement of the candidates.

Simultaneously we were helping and guiding the candidates regarding the Case study presentations. All the Case Study booklets of the ATE candidates have been collected from the candidates. Waiting for the announcement of the Viva dates. Mobilization work is going on earnestly. Now we are into Mobilization for ATE classes as well as SLD course set to start in the second week of January. Admissions to both the courses are happening simultaneously. In this connection Bhaskar and Harish Kalyan had gone to Dr. M.G.R College of Arts and science to distribute pamphlets.

The program was "Project Puthri" organized by the Avatar Group. The program had a footfall of around 1000 children of class 10 to 12. This was the UDYOG UTSAV conference of 2018 for supporting placement for girl child.

The SLD course Inauguration was done on January 20 by Mr. J.D. Ravi, the District's Differently-Abled Welfare Officer. A very busy month of planning and guiding the First batch of ATE students and planning of the Batch-2 both weekend and weekday batches.

Mr. Jesuraj and Mr. Jegan had visited the center and went through all the ATE documents and Registers. They appreciated the conduct of the examinations.

Bhaskar, Charumathi Sriram and Dr.Santhanam had visited the NGO Anandam Old Age Home at Ambattur. One of the teachers had brought in a few children for counseling. This was done by Dr. Santhanam and follow-up of the same will be taken up next month.