Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi on Monday inaugurated six new engineering colleges.

All the six engineering colleges are affiliated to Anna University.

The six engineering colleges are located at Tindivanam, Villupuram, Panruti, Ariyalur, Thirukuvalai and Ramanathapuram.

The foundation stone of the Tamil Nadu Open University and Tamil Nadu State Council for Higher Education's office was also laid down by the Chief Minister.

On this occasion, some books were released and published by the Council.

At the inauguration ceremony, Karunanidhi said that the DMK Government was following the path of ex-chief minister Kamaraj by ensuring that students from the state receive quality higher education.