CHENNAI: Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami on Wednesday opened a Police Public School at Oonamancherry near Vandalur. This is the first-of-the-kind school in Tamil Nadu.
The school is set up temporarily on the Tamil Nadu Police Academy premises at Oonamancherry near Vandalur and it will later be shifted to a 10-acre campus at Melakottaiyur, according to a statement by the Department of Information and Public Relations. The statement said that the school has been set up at a cost of `51.14 crore.
Palaniswami handed over transfer orders to a headmistress and five teachers and gave admission orders to five out of the 50 students. The State Board school, however, has classes from 1 to 5 only and offers education through English medium.