Hans News Service Hyderabad

ChiefMinister A Revanth Reddy has blasted the Bharat Rashtra Samithi for its demand that he must relinquish education portfolio. The Chief Minister also castigated Prime Minister Narendra Modi for India’s mounting debt burden.

Claiming that one lakh additional enrollments in government schools is testimony of the successful implementation of breakfast and mid-day meal schemes, the Chief Minister announced foreign study tours henceforth for government teachers every year.

Interacting with the delegates of Finland and Germany Exposure Programme on Thursday, he questioned the BRS whether the party is aware of the initiatives of breakfast and mid-day meal schemes introduced in all schools and junior colleges. The enrollment of one lakh additional students this year is a great achievement in school education, Revanth Reddy said and added that the government is spending Rs 1.08 lakh on each student whereas the parents spend only Rs 50,000 on children attending private schools.

The Chief Minister instructed the authorities to prepare a report by December outlining an action plan for the upcoming academic year. The plans should be formulated by taking every mandal into a cluster. Further, he said that the state government would provide teachers with opportunities to go abroad for further studies. He asserted that the government has launched a slew of initiatives not for politics or votes but to provide quality education to the poor. "Let us transform our government educational institutions into world-class destinations", the Chief Minister observed and added: “We all should dedicate five years to society and to transform the future for generations to come and work with the goal of making Telangana a role model for the nation.”

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