Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik (File Photo) Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik (File Photo)Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik’s televised address to schoolchildren scheduled for Tuesday, on the occasion of Children’s Day, has created confusion, with staff members in some government schools claiming that they have received “verbal suggestions” to make arrangements for students to watch the broadcast live on television sets. Some other District Education Officers (DEOs), however, said that the communication has been read wrongly, and that watching the programme is “not compulsory”. “No direct requests were made but we were given strong hints to personally arrange for TV sets,” a school principal in Khurda said. Laxman Bhoi, DEO, Nuapada, said, “No instructions for compulsory arrangement of TVs and set-top-boxes have been sent to schools (in Nuapada). We (DEOs) have the responsibility of informing students, and arrange for them to watch the address.

Source: Indian Express November 14, 2017 00:11 UTC