School Education minister Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi said in Trichy that the school education department identified 1.28 lakh school dropouts in the past five months and have enrolled them back in the school education system.
He said that the drive to bring back school dropouts during the outbreak of Covid-19 would continue even after the schools reopen.
Teachers have identified the children who had migrated to other districts and alerted their counterparts for follow-up. Students have been identified from all types of schools including government-aided, matriculation and CBSE schools. The students could be identified after their names fell in the common pool in the education management information system (EMIS). If a student was given a transfer certificate and the student hasn’t joined any other school for a certain period, the name of the student will go to the common pool.