Hyderabad : The State government has initiated measures to focus on English medium education in the government schools across the State as parents were preferring to admit their children in English medium schools. Some 8,000 government schools have introduced English medium in the State.
Replying to a question raised in the Council, the Education Minister said the State government will take new initiatives in a couple of years to retain students in government schools. “We have attached 11,000 Anganwadi centers to 11,000 primary schools in the State. Efforts were being made to retain students admitted in Anganwadi centers to continue education in the government schools”, she said.
Teachers constituency MLC Alugubelli Narsi Reddy said parents were being compelled to send their children to private schools due to lack of pre-primary or kindergarten classes in the government schools. The parents were sending children to English medium schools in private sector. But the Anganwadi workers may not be able to teach pre-primary classes due to their work burden from Women & Child Welfare department.
Graduates constituency MLC T Jeevan Reddy said the State government miserably failed to implement its much trumpeted KG-to-PG education under Right to Education (RTE) Act. He said there was a huge demand for English medium education among parents and were getting their children admitted into government residential schools. MLC Raghottham Reddy urged the Minister to simplify the process to allow the government schools from Telugu to English medium of instruction as hundreds of applications are pending with the government due to a complicated procedure. (NSS)
