No Govt School Will Be Shut Down, Assures Minister Rajmohan
The Minister was responding to VIT chancellor G. Viswanthan who earlier spoke about the closure of 94,000 government schools in India in the last 10 years, and that 246 such schools wound up in Tamil Nadu
Vellore: “We will not shut down even a single government school in the State," assured school education minister Rajmohan in Vellore.
He was participating in a function got up to felicitate heads of government and government-aided schools that recorded 100 per cent results in public exams in 2023-24, 2024-2025 and 2025-26 in the four districts of Vellore, Ranipet, Tiruppattur and Tiruvannamalai.
He was responding to VIT chancellor G. Viswanthan who earlier spoke about the closure of 94,000 government schools in India in the last 10 years, and that 246 such schools wound up in Tamil Nadu.
Conceding that more than 200 government schools were closed down in the state, Rajmohan said not a single government school was closed down after the TVK government took charge six months ago. “We will not close down government schools, nor allow them to be closed,” stressed the minister. So, the government was taking various steps to draw students to government schools, he listed out.
