The late Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa worked towards removal of poverty in the state through education for which enough funds were allocated, Education Minister K A Sengottaiyan said today.
With this in mind, the present AIADMK government allotted Rs 27,932 crore for education in the Budget for next fiscal, the Minister said.
He was inaugurating six classrooms in the Government Girls Higher Secondary School here.
The facilities, including toilets, were built at a cost Rs 84 lakh.
The sum was allocated from the MLA Constituency Development Fund, he added.
The Minister said 100 middle schools and as many high schools would be upgraded as high schools and higher secondary schools, respectively.
He said Rs 2.16 crore through NABARD would be utilised to renovate the old building units in the school.
The Minister said the school uniforms would be changed from the coming academic year.
The syllabus too would be revised to equip students for competitive examinations such as NEET, he said.
K C Karuppannan, Environment Minister, and K V Ramalingam, MLA, Selvakumara Chinniyan, MP, and S Prabakar, district Collector, also spoke.