Suriya said it was painful that students were forced to prove their eligibility by writing a test “at a time when there was a threat to life due to the coronavirus pandemic.”
With three students taking their own lives one day before Sunday’s NEET exam, lead actor Suriya was among those who issued statements condemning the situation in Tamil Nadu for controversial competitive exams. But parts of the popular Tamil actor’s statement have now caused a storm with a Madras High Court judge calling for a contempt action and retired senior judges lining up in support of the star.
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Suriya’s statement had a part in which he blamed the Supreme Court for forcing students to write NEET in the middle of a pandemic. In his statement, the actor said that the three suicide deaths on Saturday, a day before the scheduled exam, due to the stress and anxiety of taking the exam in the middle of the pandemic, had “shaken his conscience.”
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The statement had a part that referred to the judiciary: “The courts were delivering justice through videoconferencing due to life-threatening coronavirus fears (but) they are ordering students to go fearlessly and write exams.”
This offended Justice SM Subramaniam, who wrote to Chief Justice AP Sahi to initiate contempt proceedings against Suriya. Judge Subramaniam wrote that the statement states that “honorable judges fear for their own lives and do justice through video conferencing. Meanwhile, they don’t have the morale to pass orders directing students to take the NEET test without fear. “
The ‘Plastic Wall’ project in the Nilgiris district of Tamil Nadu will soon be turned into a solid wall using a Gabion mesh, according to a new experiment by the municipality. The plastic wall, a project that was launched on June 5, 2020, on the occasion of ‘World Environment Day’, is now 26.75 meters with at least 12,000 kg of plastic waste (non-salable and non-recyclable ).
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Speaking about the Plastic Wall, PM Malamurugan, Coonoor Municipality Sanitary Inspector, said: “Normally, we build walls with bricks, but these are built with dirty and non-recyclable waste particles. Our Municipal Health Officer J Ragunathan suggested this idea. Plastics take about 120 years to break down, so we thought why we shouldn’t experiment with this. “
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