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Panel pitches for 30% of budget for education
All India Save Education Committee chairman PL Visweshwar Rao on Tuesday called upon parents to fight for the allocation of 30 per cent of State budget to education.
Hyderabad: All India Save Education Committee chairman PL Visweshwar Rao on Tuesday called upon parents to fight for the allocation of 30 per cent of State budget to education.
He was speaking at the Telangana State Parents Association Hyderabad unit inauguration programme. Visweshwar Rao said that though the government was supposed to give 30 per cent of the budget to education, it had given only 20 per cent.
Highlights:
- Private schools accused of flouting rules
- Rues over falling standards of education
- Demand that govt to establish 1,000 more schools in Hyderabad
Private schools had been violating all the rules prescribed by the government for establishing them and the quality of education was also poor.
Several reports had highlighted that a sixth class student was unable to read a textbook meant for second class.
Visweshwar Rao said that due to the poor quality of education, students were failing in subjects like Mathematics, English and Telugu. In terms of facilities, private schools were no better than government schools.
He said that though the Right to Education Act had ensured right to get elementary education, it was not being implemented in the State and Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao did not speak on RTE.
He said that in the US, the neighbourhood school system ensured that students need not go beyond one kilometer to reach their school.
TSPA president N Narayana said that government should establish 1,000 more schools in Hyderabad as people from the districts were migrating to the city for their livelihood.
He said that schools equal to those being closed down in the rural areas should be opened in towns and cities.
Narayana said that while there were more than 2,000 private schools in Hyderabad, government schools numbered 700.
He said that the poor were forced to send their children to private schools as government schools were not enough in number.
