KCR vows to uplift minorities

​Hyderabad: Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Friday held that the primary objective of coming with minority residential schools was to uplift the backward sections that contribute 14.24 per cent of the total State’s population. 

In a statement released in the Legislative Council as part of ‘short discussion’ on Telangana Minorities Residential Schools, he stated that the minority communities were economically and educationally backward and equal opportunities were denied to them. 

The only way to uplift the minority communities was to provide free quality education. “There is an urgent need to bring these backward communities to the mainstream,” he said.  

The Chief Minister said before the formation of Telangana, there were 12 Minority Residential Schools and now the figure had gone up to 204 schools. Earlier, the number of beneficiaries was 6,020 only and it had gone now up to 1.3 lakhs which include 62,080 girls. The budget estimates for the year 2018-19 was prepared as per the per capita expenditure per student per annum, which is Rs 1,00,270. 

Chandrashekar Rao took pride in mentioning that for the first time in the history of minority community in Telangana State, four students had scaled Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest peak in Tanzania of South Africa. 

Telangana is the only State in the entire country to run 204 Residential Schools for Minorities and other States were planning to implement similar scheme in their respective States.