According
to the French historian Max Gallo, "for over two hundred years, posters
have been displayed in public places all over the world. Visually striking,
they have been designed to attract the attention of passers-by, making us aware
of a political viewpoint, enticing us to attend specific events, or encouraging
us to purchase a particular product or service." A poster, primarily is only a piece of printed
paper designed to be attached to a wall or vertical surface.
Tomorrow
morning, Triplicanites would wake up to
see new posters all over ……. even
though posters are nothing new to
Chennaites or people elsewhere, these are different …
A couple of decades
ago, posters were the best source of reaching the masses. Most Fridays, new cinemas would be released
and whole of Tamilnadu would see double-sized posters of the new release,
attracting more people to the theatres. Slowly the culture permeated so deep
that there were posters hailing 100th day – degenerated to 25 days and even
successful opening. There were some
hailing the audio release and pooja of proposed films even. Posters are the
most preferred form of advertisement for political parties too – in some
places, even death would be communicated through posters. You would have seen
posters of Temple festivals, of political agendas, cinemas, hailing regional
and caste leaders, announcing the death of near and more… – have you ever seen posters pertaining to education or
ones hailing the performance of students
?
We live by the
axiom that ‘Education is the only tool which can uplift the Society and empower
the lower echelons of the Society’. The foremost responsibility of a Social
Service Organisation is to improve the society and help the
underprivileged. From smaller
experimentations to full-fledged quality educational assistance in the form of
SYMA Growth was born on 6th July 2008, a very auspicious day, inaugurated
at NKT National Girls Higher Secondary School, Triplicane by Shri R Sekar, IPS,
(the then) Commissioner of Police, Greater Chennai. We have nicely moved along having completed 8 successful
years. All our students are from the lower echelons of society and some of them
are first generation students with no support in the family. Many do not have
conducive atmosphere at home, nor the proper support – still they strive to
achieve is what is most heartening. Life often is a struggle for have-nots and
there are many who have to struggle for even ordinary things. We try to learn from our experiences trying
to iron-out the rough edges.
At
SYMA Growth, last year, we had : X Std Tamil Medium; X Std English Medium(2
sections); +2 Commerce Group and +2 Science Group. We are always concerned about the performance
of SYMA Growth students who come from lower echelons of society.
This
year in +2 Section : In Commerce
section, out of 29, we had a cent percent pass. 8 of our students have obtained
more than 1000 marks [83.3%]. 2 of Science students got more than 1000. Growth topper is R Devarajan with 1110
marks. In the Science, there is a slight
set-back as 4 out of 27 failed.
The X results were announced on 25th. Our students have done well. In X English medium 50 have passed out of
52. 15 students have secured more than
400 marks. In Tamil medium, which
generally is marked by absenteeism at school level too, 19 passed out of 22;
two of them secured more than 400.
Growth topper is Ms Sandhiya who got 469/500; in Tamil medium – it is V.
Saranraj 466/500 including 100 in Social Science.
Meantime, the
activities for the Educational year 2016-17 have commenced. This year we
have a Corporate sponsor – M/s Manpower Group. We distributed applications, scrutinized
them, have conducted personal interview on 15th May 2016 to +2 students. We have infact addressed the parents of
aspirants in group emphasizing the standards of tuition, need for adherence to
discipline, involvement of parents, attendance of students and all other
aspects. We are keen on raising the
level of education and making our students better informed and become
responsible citizens of the society. The
selection is primarily on economic criteria. Those with parental income of
Rs.20000/- and above are not considered.
It would be of interest to you to
know that the selection was done on certain additional parameters : physically challenged, students
of schools of lower fee structure,
parents illiterate, parental occupation being manual labour / coolie and
the like, orphans, children of destitute / single mother – all accorded some
additional mark enabling that we select students who otherwise do not have
access to quality tuition by paying fees.
Every year at the
time of inauguration, as a carrot for improved performance in studies, we tell
our ‘SYMA Growth’ tuition centre
students that we would
print posters with photos of all students who score more than 400 out of 500 in
X and more than 1000 out of 1200 in +2. This
year 27 of them have their photos and achievements printed and displayed in all
streets and bylanes of Triplicane. This is a grand achievement by our
students considering the fact that most
come from economically poor family, have none to guide them at home and the
environ at home is not so conducive. We appreciate all those who have performed
well and wish that they study well further and march towards a chosen
successful career path. Here is the
poster that would spring up in Triplicane tomorrow hailing our students……….
No words can describe
our gratitude to the management of NK Thirumalachariar Educational Trust and
NKT Boys Higher School. We thank the NKT
Management for providing us the infrastructure and all the support. We thank
Smt. Leela Sekhar, Secreatry of NKT Trust and the Head master of the
School Mr S Venkatadri. We pray to
Almighty for continued success of this project and look forward to continued
support of you all. The success is due
to the blessings of Lord Parthasarathi who guides us in all our steps. We must place on record our thanks and
gratitude to those teachers who taught these students with great dedication,
commitment and devotion. We thank all
our teachers for their care and attendance. Our Coordinator Mrs Thara and the
team who assisted her also deserve special appreciation. . A Big Thank you to all of you who have been supporting us in all our
endeavours.Together We will strive to make the society better place for all of
us.
With regards – S.
Sampathkumar
Secretary – SYMA
29th May
2016.
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