"government-schools"

Among schools with toilet facilities, 25,089 have functional toilets as 2,277 toilets went defunct due to poor maintenance, lack of running water facilities and security in the schools

Over 400 students hospitalised due to food poisoning incidents, multiple snake and rat bite cases have also been reported in schools in 2024  

Mess committees comprising students should be formed in schools, allowing them to oversee all activities from cooking to serving. This way, students can address any lapses in ensuring food quality, he explained. "In the future, I will visit residential schools, inspect the food quality, and interact with the students. Anyone found being irresponsible will face strict punishment," he added.

The Students' Federation of India (SFI) Telangana committee called for government schools bandh on November 30.

He raised concern over an alarming rise in viral fevers and questioned the silence of Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy even as students are being neglected in numerous incidents.

The State government was neglecting the education sector as part of its designs for keeping poor and middle-class students away from quality education, he said

On raising this issue, students claimed that teachers asked them to carry their own food from home and threatened to fail them in their Class X exams.

BRS leader criticises government for its failure to provide primary education to tribal children and called it an "unforgivable crime

Students at a government school in Kothapally are eating rice with only chili powder and oil due to the State government's failure to pay for mid-day meals and salaries for cook-cum-helpers. Senior BRS leader T Harish Rao criticised the government's negligence and called for immediate action from Deputy Chief Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka.

As per the information shared by the State government, the number of private schools has come down from 11,238 in 2021-22 to 10,832 in 2023-24.

Government schools have seen a 4.45 lakh drop in enrolments, while private schools gained 5.37 lakh new students, despite government schools offering English medium instruction.

he directions were issued as Collector Valluru Kranthi found such a programme being organised at the Rameshwarabanda Government School in Patancheru on July 12 disturbing students and also people living in the neighbourhood.

The teachers’ transfer was being taken up with an aim to improve the quality of educational standards in the government schools, according to an official statement.

They said that the school needs at least eight teachers in addition to a headmaster

Parents have been appealing to the District Education Dept to sanction more teachers for the school, citing the increasing student strength

This initiative under Tarang – ADP India CSR Program, is aimed at feeding these children for one entire month, underscoring ADP's enduring commitment to community service and social responsibility

The school would release a selection list after the screening test conducted on Thursday, he said, adding that they would give due priority to orphans, children of single parents and children from poor families on humanitarian grounds in the selection list.

The committee was undertaking works such as strengthening of basic infrastructure, construction of girls toilets, providing drinking water facilities, minor and major repairs works, renovation and maintenance of existing and dysfunctional toilets in government schools, he said.

Besides the talents of students, teaching, sport, excursion tours and other special programmes being offered in government schools should be highlighted in short videos.

Besides conducting review meetings with officials on the progress of works, Collector Pamela Satpathy is also personally examining works by visiting schools.