Chennai, May 5 (PTI) The Tamil Nadu government on Thursday inked a Memorandum of Understanding with technology giant Google to facilitate easy English learning for state-run school students.

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The pact envisages use of an app 'Google Read Along' by government school students to read, understand, speak and write English easily, an official release here said.

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The MoU between the School Education department and Google was signed at the Secretariat here.

Chief Minister M K Stalin, School Education Minister Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi, top government and Google officials were present.

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