Minister for Social Welfare and Backward Classes Welfare Kota Srinivas Poojary on Tuesday announced that permission would be given to start PU courses in three residential schools at Kudupali, Doodihalli, and Chikkerur in Haveri district.
Inaugurating the new building of Indira Gandhi Residential School, built at a cost of ₹25 crore, at Kudapalli village on Tuesday, Mr. Poojary said that permission would be given for Ambedkar Community Halls and ‘Hadapada Community Hall’ at Rattihalli.
The Minister said that the government had given priority to providing education to poor children and for them 830 residential schools were being operated. As much as ₹250 crore had been sanctioned to these residential schools, he said.
