Johor educators celebrated for their dedication on Teachers Day

Compiled by C. ARUNO, MAHADHIR MONIHULDIN and R. ARAVINTHAN

TEACHERS from SJK (T) Ladang Yong Peng, Johor, won two awards in conjunction with the national-level Teachers Day celebration in Melaka, Malaysia Nanban reported.

Puvaneswari Ganesan received the Anugerah Guru Inspirasi 2023 and RM5,000 in cash.

Puvaneswari, together with Kalaivani Murugiah, Lydia Tamilselvan and Nurshafakah Nadirah Nasri, also bagged the team innovation award.

They earned the awards for inspiring classroom participation, their innovative teaching methods and for guiding their pupils with distinction, said headmaster Dominic Sawarimuthu.

The school was proud of the awards, said Sawarimuthu, especially since it took home the Guru Inspirasi title for a second time, beating out 16,750 teachers that were nominated nationwide.

> The daily also reported that two men in Tamil Nadu, India, died after inhaling toxic fumes and drowning in a septic tank they were hired to clean.

The incident occurred at a house in Chennai, and the victims were believed to have gone in without any protective gear, shortly before falling unconscious.

The practice of cleaning septic tanks manually has been banned in India since 1993, but laws completely outlawing the practice were only enacted in 2013.

Despite this, more than 800 individuals have reportedly died between 2015 and 2020 while carrying out this perilous task.

The above articles are compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a >, it denotes a separate news item.