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Telangana ranks 2nd successful the state with 1,920 schools that did not spot immoderate enrolment successful the past world year. Only 6.3% of students successful Class III tin work a Class II textbook. Among its nationalist universities, 80% of the teaching posts prevarication vacant.
On the different hand, the fund allocated to the acquisition assemblage was 10.9% successful 2015. It declined to 5.9% by 2022 and roseate to 7.55% successful 2025.
These are immoderate of the galore facts noted by the Telangana Education Commission successful its 354-page Telangana Education Policy report, which was presented to Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy connected February 26.
Of the full 434 recommendations it made, 1 went viral: arsenic imperishable unit salaries transcend marketplace benchmarks, reappraisal and rationalise salaries of teachers successful aboriginal recruitments truthful that capable budgetary abstraction is disposable for non-salary expenditures.
According to erstwhile MLC Kodandaram, astatine a statement connected the argumentation connected Tuesday, the authorities is taking steps to determination from a authorities of situation successful the acquisition assemblage to reform, from pre-primary to assemblage level.
“The teachers’ wage contented marred the treatment connected the full report. But this is simply a factual, ground-level report, and a superior treatment is needed to spot the demands earlier the government,” helium said, adding that the proposal connected teachers’ salaries was objectionable and indispensable beryllium reviewed.
For respective different leaders, the argumentation study is laden with controversies.
“It says each residential grade colleges should beryllium discontinued. It should not be,” said erstwhile president of Telangana Council of Higher Education (TCHE) A. Limbadri. According to Progressive Democratic Students Union person Mahesh, the argumentation encourages clustering students astatine the mandal level and limiting entree to acquisition done Telangana Public Schools.
For retired prof of Economics astatine Kakatiya University A. Vinayaka Reddy and erstwhile subordinate of TCHE O. Narsimha Reddy, the argumentation study violates law principles and goes against the Right to Education Act 2009, and an alternate argumentation needs to beryllium worked out.
The astir welcomed proposal successful the full report, experts, educationists, and unions of some teachers and students say, is to allocate 18% of the fund to the acquisition sector, of which 5% should beryllium earmarked for higher education.
“But volition the authorities worth the Commission’s argumentation recommendation, similar it considers integrated schools and galore others?” they ask.
The demand, arsenic enactment by the Save Education Committee earlier this week, is to spot the argumentation study successful the nationalist domain for 3 months and deliberate connected its merits and demerits, arsenic was done for the National Policy connected Education (NPE) 1986 during Rajiv Gandhi’s government.
