Centre committed to providing quality education to poor:
Chennai, Dec 19 Asserting that the Centre was committed to providing quality education to the poor, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said that his government had taken several initiatives to achieve this goal by setting up several technical institutions including six new IITs in the current academic session.
``We need to get our priorities straight in education. We are spending lots of money on the peripherals of education and neglecting the core needs,'' Labour Party spokesman for Education, Evarist Bartolo, told The Malta Independent on Sunday.