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KTR assures private educational institutions of all help

Minister said the govt was aware of the demand of private educational institutions for a separate slab for property tax and electricity bills

By Telangana Today

Updated On - 11:27 PM, Tue - 24 November 20

KTR assures private educational institutions of all help — File photo of MAUD Minister K T Rama Rao

Hyderabad: IT Minister KT Rama Rao said on Tuesday that the State government would work towards resolving pending issues of private educational institutions.

Interacting with Telangana private school and college managements here, Rao said the government was aware of the demand of private educational institutions for a separate slab for property tax and electricity bills. A meeting would soon be held with heads of the institutions and officials concerned and a decision would be taken, he said.

On reopening of schools, Rao said most parents were still apprehensive about sending their children to school. He cited the example of schools reopening in Andhra Pradesh which resulted in teachers getting infected with Covid-19, which was a worrying factor.

Stating that before the formation of Telangana, educational institutions and apartments had to depend on power generators and invertors for power supply, Rao said six months into the new State, power supply issues were solved with power supply now being round the clock.

Earlier, in a blistering attack on the BJP, Rao said in the last six years, not a single central educational institution was sanctioned for the State.

“Did the BJP sanction a single educational institution to Telangana? They did not give us an IIM, NID IISER, or Navodaya school for our new districts. Moreover, they canceled the ITIR that was sanctioned for Hyderabad,” he said.

Listing out the various initiatives of the State government, from Annapurna centres, Basthi Dawakhanas, She Teams and the upcoming drinking water reservoir at Keshavapuram, Rao said the waste collection and management system in the city too was the most advanced in the country.

Pointing out how the BJP-led NDA government was selling PSUs, Maharatna and Navaratna companies and privatising even the Indian Railways, Rao said that if the BJP by any chance won the GHMC, it would even sell the Charminar and Golconda and perhaps even privatise the GHMC.