Confidence in govt schools growing: Kadiyam

Hyderabad: Deputy Chief Minister and Minister for Education Kadiyam Srihari said on Sunday that confidence in government educational institutions is growing among the people and the teachers should work hard to preserve it.

Speaking at the 70th anniversary of State Teachers Union, Srihari appealed to the teachers to help the government’s efforts to promote standards in the government schools. “Leave your problems to me and focus on educating the kids,” he told the teachers.

He appreciated the State Teachers Union for its work in solving the issues of the government teachers for the past 70 years. He said that the number of unions representing the teachers has gone up and they had been hampering the government’s efforts to address the issue by filing cases in the courts.

He said the government’s efforts had yielded results and reverse exodus had begun from the private schools to government schools. The Deputy Chief Minister said that due to the fee reimbursement scheme a number of engineering colleges has risen. While only 1.10 lakh students are getting qualified, the number of seats available in them was 2.50 lakh. The number of seats in the degree colleges was 4.60 lakhs and after linking admissions with Aadhaar, the number of admissions was 2.50 lakhs.

Srihari said there was no proposal with the government to close the government schools. He said that the Peddapalli District Collector was prevented from doing so.

Irrigation Minister T Harish Rao said the government school were displaying ‘no admission boards’ because all the seats were filled up. After Kerala it was Telangana State government which has been strengthening the health and education sectors. He STU was the first teachers’ union to adopt resolution demanding statehood to Telangana.

MLC P Sudhakar Reddy, TS Beverages Corporation Chairman Devi Prasad, TNGOs leader Ravinder Reddy, STU State president Bhujanga Rao and general Secretary Sadanandam Goud participated in the
meeting.