Tamil Nadu’s senior educationist Rajagopalan dies at 95 | Chennai Information – The Instances of India

CHENNAI: Senior educationist S S Rajagopalan, who was a member of the Muthukumaran panel shaped to arrange Samacheer Kalvi (uniform system of college training) within the state beneath late CM M Karunanidhi cupboard, handed away in a hospital in Chennai late on Tuesday. He was 95. An English trainer who additionally taught Math by occupation, Rajagopalan started his profession within the early Nineteen Fifties at a govt-aided faculty in Coimbatore earlier than changing into its headmaster. He moved to Madras after his retirement in 1990 and briefly served as a senate member of Madras College. His physique shall be handed over to Ramachandra Medical Faculty for medical analysis. All through his 4-decades-long profession, Rajagopalan served as a member of the technical committee of the All India Discussion board for Proper Schooling, and briefly labored with the State Platform for Frequent College System (SPCSS-TN) in Tamil Nadu. “He was a staunch advocate of mom tongue because the medium of instruction in govt colleges. Throughout his time on the Samacheer Kalvi committee, there was an accusation that the Tamil Nadu syllabus was under par in requirements in comparison with CBSE or different syllabi. By means of his year-long analysis, evaluating the syllabi, he established that the content material supplied within the TN syllabus was the truth is extra academically fulfilling than others,” SPCSS-TN normal secretary P B Prince Gajendra Babu instructed TOI. Submit his retirement, Rajagopalan additionally revealed articles for newspapers and periodicals. Condoling his loss of life, College training minister Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi posted on X: “The demise of the senior educationist S S Rajagopalan is a superb loss to the sector of training. Ayya Rajagopalan was one who emphasised that examination doesn’t merely consider studying. It additionally evaluates educating. Whereas guiding pioneering initiatives, he by no means hesitated to critique them, all the time for the welfare of scholars. We pay our respects to Ayya.” Educationists, together with TN faculty training director S Kannappan, condoled his loss of life, calling it a “grave loss” to training.