'DMK Terming These As Dravidian Model': AIADMK Condemns Closure Of KG Classes In TN Govt Schools

With the closure, OPS said that the DMK government is paving the way for the government school students to go to private institutions and enable the latter to flourish.

O Panneerselvam (File Photo)

Chennai: AIADMK Coordinator O Panneerselvam criticised Tamil Nadu government for shutting down kindergarten classes in government schools started during AIADMK rule and questioned whether it was the DMK party’s Dravidian Model of governance that TN CM Stalin had been saying in the past.

The statement of OPS also comes after Tamil Nadu School Education Department announced that the LKGs and UKGs in all state-run schools will be cancelled from the next academic year and they will be converted into anganwadi centres. Around 43,000 students who chose to study in the pre-primary schools will now study in the same anganwadi centres.

Following the announcement, former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu and AIADMK Coordinator O.Panneerselvam on Wednesday condemned the DMK government for deciding to close down kindergarten classes in the government schools.

Panneerselvam said the AIADMK government in order to attract more children to the government schools had started lower and upper kindergarten classes.

The poor people admitted their children to the government schools instead of private ones that charge high fees, he added.

According to him, the DMK government is paving the way for the government school students to go to the private institutions and enable the latter to flourish.

Such an action is against social justice and it seems the DMK is terming these as Dravidian Model, the AIADMK leader added. He urged Chief Minister M.K. Stalin to intervene in the matter so that the status quo was restored in the government schools.

Stalin has been saying the DMK party is providing a Dravidian Model of governance.

Meanwhile, the then Edappadi Palaniswami-led Tamil Nadu government started kindergarten in 2,381 government schools across the state three years back.

(With IANS inputs)