Addressing a gathering of teachers during the Corporation schools renaming ceremony at Ripon Building here, the Mayor said, “Rs one lakh cash reward will be given to the parents teachers association (PTA) of those schools registering centum which in turn can be used for the infrastructure development in such schools.”

Elaborating the need for changing the name of Corporation schools to Chennai schools, Subramanian said, “The objective of renaming the Corporation school as Chennai Schools is to remove the psychological barriers among the public that the Corporation schools were not equivalent to private schools.”

Subramanian said that in just one week since the admissions began to schools run by the Chennai Corporation in April, over 1,500 students have enrolled in different classes.

After renaming 312 civic body schools as Chennai Schools, he insisted that the teachers working at these schools motivate the students for securing good marks. He also noted that 528 child labourers who were rescued last year would soon be enrolled into Chennai schools. Besides other officials, Corporation Commissioner Rajesh Lakhoni, Deputy Commissioner (Education) M Balaji and Deputy Mayor R Sathiyabama participated in the ceremony.