First-of-its-kind KG to PG campus in Telangana inaugurated

RAJANNA SIRCILLA

The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) government is steadfastly implementing the ‘Mana Ooru Mana Badi’ programme to strengthen infrastructure in government schools and provide quality education to students that make them globally competent and integrated personalities, said IT and Industries Minister K.T. Rama Rao.

The State government is spending ₹1.20 lakh on each student of a little over 1,000 State-run gurukul schools, he said while speaking after inaugurating the KG to PG campus developed under the Mana Ooru Mana Badi programme in Gambhiraopet in Rajanna Sircilla district on Wednesday.

The State government’s flagship programme is aimed at creating basic infrastructure and improving amenities in 26,065 State-run schools at an estimated cost of ₹7,289 crore in three phases across the State with the support of donors and CSR funds.

In the first phase, renovation works were taken up in 9,123 schools at an expenditure of ₹3,498 crore across the State. Of these, a little over 1,200 renovated schools were inaugurated in various parts of the State on Wednesday, sources added.

Speaking at the inaugural ceremony of the KG to PG campus in Gambhiraopet, Mr.Rama Rao said Chief Minister K.Chandrasekhar Rao during his visit to Gambhiraopet on September 17 in 2004 as part of the Telangana movement had assured to set up KG to PG institutions after the formation of a separate state. The newly inaugurated KG to PG campus stands testimony to his commitment to provide quality education from KG to PG, he noted, adding Mana Ooru Mana Badi was a pathbreaking initiative in this direction.

He said the KG to PG campus, the first of its kind facility in the State, will be named after Telangana ideologue, late professor K.Jayashankar.

Education Minister P.Sabitha Indra Reddy also spoke.