The School Education Department has ordered an inquiry into an incident in which two students of the Panchayat Union Middle School at Periyur, Erode, were seen painting the school floor in a video clip that went viral on social media on Wednesday.
The video that runs for 2.24 minutes was shot on Tuesday by the former panchayat vice-president, Shanmugam, of AIADMK who was also the former president of the school management committee.
The video shows two boy students of Class 7 kneeling down and painting the floor outside the classroom. When Mr. Shanmugam questions why they are painting, headmistress Dhanalakshmi is heard saying that since the boys need to draw on walls, they are given the training. The school with five teachers has 53 students studying from classes 1 to 8.
