Telangana govt promises corrective steps

​New Delhi: Supreme Court bench consisting of Justice Deepak Mishra and Justice Sivakirti Singh which received the report of amicus curie appointed to study the infrastructure in the government schools in the two Telugu states adjourned the case to July 11 while ordering the amicus curie to file a full-fledged report on the state of such schools in Telangana before July first week.

The bench which took up the petition questioning the State governments’ role in zero admission into hundreds of schools across the States had appointed the lawyer Gupta as amicus curie to assist the court in the case.

Gupta filed a preliminary report after touring the States as suggested by the bench. His report disclosed that private schools were attracting students in large numbers compared to the government schools as their parents preferred English medium schools with better infrastructure.

The government machinery completely failed in reversing the trend and in attracting the students back into its fold. The Telangana government had submitted that it would take the corrective measures without fail.

The bench wondered why Telangana government had failed in retaining students in its schools just as Odisha successfully demonstrated.