Shillong, Nov. 4 -- Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma on Wednesday announced that the state government is formulating a mechanism to extend financial aid to over 700 unsupported schools.

"We are working on a plan where we are able to support existing schools which we are currently supporting, and a plan to support schools which we are not supporting at all," he said, while addressing the 126th anniversary celebrations of Presbyterian Higher Secondary School.

The Chief Minister also inaugurated a new higher secondary section and laid the foundation stone for an auditorium of the school.

Sangma said that there are about 700-plus secondary and Higher Secondary schools for whom the government are not able to give any financial support....