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Andhra Pradesh Minister for Education and IT Nara Lokesh connected Friday (February 13, 2026) said the conjugation authorities is committed to upgrading infrastructure successful authorities schools and making them competitory with backstage institutions.
Replying successful the Legislative Council to questions raised by members Parvatareddy Chandrasekhar Reddy, T. Kalpalatha and M.V. Ramachandra Reddy, the Minister said officials person estimated that astir ₹7,500 crore is required to fortify basal facilities successful authorities schools. He said a prima standing strategy based connected 18 parameters was introduced, which revealed that astir 40% of schools were rated beneath 2 stars.
Mr. Lokesh noted that during his visits, including to Chittoor district, respective schools had the contented of leakage successful the roofs, benches, furniture, painting, drinking h2o and toilet facilities, were beneath the standards. “Our precedence is to archetypal guarantee captious infrastructure,” helium said, adding that pending works are nether review.
He said the authorities introduced a “one teacher per class” argumentation nether Model Primary Schools arsenic an alternate to GO 117, expanding specified sum from 3% earlier to 33% now.
Stating that 233 schools developed earlier nether Nadu-Nedu were aboriginal closed, helium questioned wherefore ₹500 crore successful pending bills were not cleared during the erstwhile regime. He claimed the authorities cleared the dues and is focusing connected guaranteed Foundational Literacy and Numeracy done AI tools aft learning outcomes declined betwixt 2019 and 2024.
