ACHIEVEMENT -- 11:

ST ANTONY’S HEADMASTER RECEIVES ‘MAHATMA GANDHI AWARD’

By P S SUNDAR 

The Headmaster and Correspondent of the 154-year-old St Antony’s Higher Secondary School, Coonoor, Bro Dr Thomas Selvam is among the few selected from different parts of the state to attend a dinner meet with Tamil Nadu Governor Banwarilal Purohit in Chennai coming Sunday (Oct 6).

“This follows my receiving the ‘Mahatma Gandhi Award’ on Gandhi Jayanthi day in Chennai at the function organised by Gandhi World Foundation (GWF) at which the Governor distributed awards”, Bro Dr Thomas Selvam told me on return from Chennai.

According to the GWF’s Founder President M L Rajesh, Bro Dr Thomas Selvam received the award for being an ‘Achiever in Education Service’ at GWF’s ‘Gandhi 150 International Peace Festival’ to celebrate the 150th Birth anniversary of the Mahatma.

Bro Dr Thomas Selvam is among the 150 highly remarkable persons in 10 categories selected for the award, Rajesh noted.

“I received a citation, Memorabilia items relating to Gandhiji, a statue of The Mahatma and the book, ‘My Experiments with Truth’ the autography of Gandhiji”, Bro Dr Thomas Selvam said.

The teachers and students of St Antony’s honoured him in the school for bringing laurels to the institution with this coveted award.   This set the pace for Gandhiji’s 150th birth celebrations in the school.

Bro Dr Thomas Selvam who holds PhD in English Literature and Masters degree in Education has 30 years of teaching experience (as also Headmaster experience) in various schools run by the Montfort Brothers of St Gabriel.

He has the credit of producing centum pass in X and XII standard Public exams for 12 years.   Even at Coonoor St Antony’s, a Government aided school, where the majority of the students belong to poor family background, centum pass results were obtained at last year’s X and XII standard public exams.

He said that his contribution to imparting soft skill training to tribal children in The Nilgiris got recognised for the award.

He has already imparted soft skill training to teachers of over 70 schools by now.

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