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Ganta warns private edn institutions on huge fees
The State government is keen to pursue carrot and stick approach in a bid to improve quality of education in the State. In what can be termed as a two-fold strategy, the government is providing necessary basic infrastructure to improve the standards in State-run schools while cracking a whip on private schools that are collecting huge fee and donations.
​Hyderabad: The State government is keen to pursue carrot and stick approach in a bid to improve quality of education in the State. In what can be termed as a two-fold strategy, the government is providing necessary basic infrastructure to improve the standards in State-run schools while cracking a whip on private schools that are collecting huge fee and donations.
Addressing a press conference after releasing the results for Andhra Pradesh Gurukul Schools Society (APGSS) entrance examination,
here on Tuesday, Minister for Human Resources Ganta Srinivasa Rao laid out the steps taken by the government in the last two years to improve the standards in the State-run schools.
Srinivasa Rao asserted that they are committed to maintain high standards in the education sector. “While improving the standards in the State-run schools, the government would also act tough on the private schools that are fleecing parents by collecting donations and excess fee in the name of providing quality education,” he stated and warned the private schools of stringent action, if found guilty of collecting donations.
He said that they are organising a work shop on May 28 on the creating basic amenities in State-run schools to boost the education standards. He termed allocation of Rs 21,000 crore for education in the budget as a proof for the TDP government’s commitment to bring a sea change in the quality education in the State.
Refuting the allegations that the government has been shutting down several schools, he said that rationalisation of schools was meant to improve the education standards and assured to fill the vacant teacher posts in the schools. The Minister said that 90.54 per cent of candidates, who have appeared, qualified in the entrance examination into 50 residential schools, 83.62 per cent cleared the entrance examination for admission into 10 Junior Residential Schools.
He thanked President Pranab Mukherjee for giving ascent to the NEET ordinance and also thanked the efforts of Union Ministers J P Nadda and M Venkaiah Naidu in bringing out the ordinance.
