Quality education without stress needed: Collector

Kakinada: East Godavari Collector D Muralidhar Reddy advised the private school managements to strive for providing quality and stress free education to children. Addressing the correspondents and principals of private unaided educational institutions in the district, at Ambedkar Bhavan here on Friday , Collector said that the private educational institutions have been playing a vital role in extending quality education to the children and asked them not to over burden the children in the name of competition.

He asked them to follow the `no bag day' on every Saturday to the children up to 5 class .

Muralidhar Reddy on this occasion suggested that skill up gradation is needed for the teachers to make updates in teaching and efforts are being made for enhancing the capacities of the government teachers also.

With regard to maintenance of school buses ,Collector directed them to check the condition of the buses periodically and to train the drivers and conductors in a systematic way. Muralidgar Reddy also said that there have been certain complaints against the managements of some schools in Spandana weekly programme that some are running on public and summer holidays.

S Abraham,DEO East Godavari said that corporal punishments to children will not be allowed .Ch Sathi Babu,JC 2 .Vijayakumar, PO, SSA and others attended. Representatives of private schools attended in large numbers from different parts of the district.