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Govt to table bill for benefit of orphans soon
Telangana State Deputy Chief Minister and Education Minister Kadiyam Srihari on Saturday announced that a bill on orphan kids in the State would be tabled in the State Legislative Assembly soon. “All orphan kids in the state will no longer be considered orphans. The government will take responsibility of orphans and also their education.
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Hyderabad: Telangana State Deputy Chief Minister and Education Minister Kadiyam Srihari on Saturday announced that a bill on orphan kids in the State would be tabled in the State Legislative Assembly soon. “All orphan kids in the state will no longer be considered orphans. The government will take responsibility of orphans and also their education.
Accordingly, the State has set the process in motion. A bill in this regard will be tabled in the Assembly,” said Srihari, while addressing the teacher community on the occasion of Teachers’ Day celebrations held at Ravindra Bharati here on Saturday. The Minister reiterated that the government was committed to provide quality and free education to economically poor sections in the society.
He said the KG to PG free education programme in English medium would commenced from the next academic year. Due to apathy of the earlier governments in the united Andhra Pradesh, the education system was badly affected and the government was in the process of reviving it, he said.
Srihari further said the TRS government for the first time in the country was providing fine rice to the school students, free intermediate education and textbooks to the students. “The free education has led to increase in enrolment of student by 10,000,” he added. On the appointment of vice-chancellors in the universities, the Deputy Chief Minister said the government would appoint permanent VCs in three months.
He further said the government would conduct fresh district selection committee in the next year. On the contract lecturers regularisation, the Minister said the guidelines would be framed soon and their services would be regularised based on the roster points. The government was making all efforts to increase the literacy levels to 100 per cent, he added. He appealed the teachers to improve the pass percentage.
Kadiyam congratulated teacher community on the occasion of Teachers’ Day. Home Minister Naini Narasimha Reddy stated that teachers had power of moulding even politics. He urged the teachers to increase the pass percentage in the government schools as they were lagging behind the private schools.
During the occasion as many as 71 meritorious teachers of school education, intermediate education, technical education, university and collegiate education, language and culture were presented with the State Teacher Awards.
