Students were welcomed with sweets and flowers as schools in Erode district reopened for the new academic year after the summer vacations.
Teachers greeted the students with flowers, sweets, and balloons. Many government schools featured floral arches and decorative items. At some schools, teachers showered flower petals on the students and distributed sweet pongal in celebration of former Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi’s birth anniversary on June 3. At all government and government-aided schools, students received textbooks, notebooks, and atlases on the first day.
Several areas in the city where schools are located along the road experienced traffic congestion in the morning, as many parents parked their cars and two-wheelers on the road to drop off their children.
