Chennai: Tamil Nadu government on Thursday announced its decision to set up a law college each in the districts of Villupuram, Dharmapuri and Ramanathapuram.
Chief Minister K Palaniswami said in a statement here that the decision to set up the colleges was taken to enable students in and around these districts to take up law education. Accordingly, 80 students each would be admitted for the three-year and five-year law courses from the academic year 2017-18 through the Dr Ambedkar Law University, he said.
A total sum of Rs 6.81 crore would be incurred by the state on various activities such as creating teaching and non-teaching posts, setting up libraries and other related facilities, he added.
The CM said “there are seven government law colleges and one private law college functioning under the Dr Ambedkar Law University.” Besides, there is also a National Law School at Srirangam established at a cost of Rs100 crore during the rule of Ms Jayalalithaa.
