Telangana schools reopen after 52-day summer break; breakfast scheme relaunched

Schools across Telangana reopened for the 2026-27 academic year after a 52-day summer vacation. Attendance remained low as reopening coincided with Amavasya. The State government also relaunched the breakfast scheme and introduced a milk scheme in select government schools.

Hyderabad: After 52-day summer vacation, students have returned to the classrooms as the schools across the State reopened for the fresh academic year 2026-27 on Monday. The schools were supposed to commence on June 12. However, the School Education department deferred the reopening to June 15, citing representations from various stakeholders.

Although students returned, the schools reported thin attendance as reopening coincided with Amavasya (no moon day), which traditionally considered inauspicious day for any new beginning.

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Meanwhile, after depriving students of their first meal in the schools for two academic years, the Telangana Congress government on Monday relaunched the breakfast scheme and introduced milk scheme in select government and local body schools in the State.

Participating in the breakfast relaunch, Transport and BC Welfare Minister Ponnam Prabhakar dined with students at Government High School Raj Bhavan. Textbooks and notebooks were also distributed to students.

A total of 68,73,019 students enrolled in 39,789 schools during the academic year 2025-26. Of the total, 16,80,910 students enrolled in 24,219 government and local body schools, and 43,58,729 students admitted in 11,832 private unaided schools.