No Drinking Water in 6,000 Schools in Tamil Nadu

Chennai: About 6,103 schools across the state still lack access to safe drinking water. This information was given by Minister for School Education Thangam Thennarasu during the inauguration of ‘Elixir of Life’ project, a joint venture of Coca-Cola India Inc and Rotary International, at the Social service League Primary School in the city on Monday.

Specifically more than 50 percent of the state’s higher secondary school needed safe drinking water, he explained, emphasizing the importance of the same water-borne diseases were the major source of illness for school-going children across the state.

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No Drinking Water in 6,000 Schools in Tamil Nadu