Facing fire from opposition and even from partners within the alliance, Tamil Nadu School Education Minister Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi denied reports that 500 government schools were being privatised.
Addressing the reporters on Thursday, a day after opposition BJP and ally CPM criticised the reported move, Minister Mahesh Poyyamozhi said the DMK government had no plans to privatise schools. Some private schools came forward to lend a hand to improve State-run schools under their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programmes, he claimed.
âGovernment schools are like our own children; nobody will be allowed to adopt them,â the minister added.