Pondy to celebrate Teachers' Day on September 9

Puducherry Government will celebrate Teachers' Day on September 9 instead of September 5 which happens to be a holiday on account of Vinayaka Chaturthi, Education and Agriculture Minister R Kamalakannan told the Puducherry assembly today.
During zero hour, he said as many as 21 teachers would be presented awards at a function on that day.
He said necessary circulars would be sent to the schools in this regard.
He was replying to a question by ruling Congress member R K R Anandaraman who wanted to know the date on which the Teachers' day celebrations would be held in Puducherry.