TPCC chief faults closure of schools when pubs are open
The Hindu
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Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) president and Malkajigiri MP A. Revanth Reddy has alleged that Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao is going ahead with a steely resolve to distance education from the poor including closing schools in the name of COVID-19 spread when there is no fatality with infection in schools.
In an informal chat with newspersons here on Tuesday he observed that the Chief Minister was wilfully misleading people with decisions such as setting up a Cabinet Sub-Committee on controlling fee in schools instead of implementing the Right to Education (RTE) Act in letter and spirit under which 25% of admissions would go the poor without any donations and exorbitant fee.
The only response from the government on the implementation of RTE so far had been that it was implementing KG to PG free education policy, the TPCC president said and sought to know the rationale behind the government decision to offer English medium instruction from the next academic year when there were no teachers and no recruitment for long.