Ottapidaram youths to get easy access to higher education

THOOTHUKUDI: Minister Thangam Thennarasu fulfilled a long pending demand of people of Ottapidaram by announcing an government arts and science college in the town. Henceforth, students from Ottapidaram, which is a backward and semi-arid region in the district, need not travel as far as Kovilpatti and Thoothukudi to purse higher education.

Prabakar, an activist from Ottapidaram said the college will especially give girls easy access to higher education. People living in Thoothukudi corporation limit have been demanding a government college as aided colleges are fleecing students, he said.