ACB Director General A.K. Khan has said that the State Government, with an aim to take education, employment and development closer to the minorities, would launch 120 residential schools for them in the next two years. To begin with, during the coming academic year 71 schools would start functioning.
Quality education
In a meeting with minority leaders and religious heads here on Saturday, he told them that quality education would become available to the poor minority children at these schools and therefore they must encourage children to pursue education. To begin with only three classes from 5 to 7 would be introduced and later upgrade it to Intermediate.
Schools would be opened for boys at Armoor, Yellareddy and Kotagiri and for girls at Banswada, Nizamabad and Bodhan. To enable students to compete with their counterparts at international-level, the medium for teaching would be English , he said and added that well qualified teachers would be appointed.
The State government would spend Rs.8,000 on each student. He said that residential schools have been achieving results on a par with corporate schools, he said and disclosed that each class would have two sections with 40 students in each section. Seventy five per cent seats will be reserved for Muslims, Sikhs, Christians, Parsies, Budhists and Jains and the remaining would be open for others, he said.
Mr. Khan, a senior IPS officer, said that in 71 schools 17,040 seats are available and this year already 10,000 candidates applied for admissions. In this district a least number of students [170] applied for seats. He appealed to minority elders to take personal interest to encourage students to join these schools.
Enrolment
He said the last date for enrolment was extended to May 23.
Minority Welfare Department Secretary and Minority Finance Corporation Managing Director Mohammed Shafi, said that teachers of the minority residential schools would be selected through TSPSC. In the meantime, highly qualified people would be appointed on contract basis, he said.
Unlike in the past this time the Government allocated Rs.4,300 crore for minority welfare, he said and added that the student strength would be increased to 1.50 lakh in the schools gradually.
District Collector Yogitha Rana and Superintendent of Police S. Chandrashekar Reddy were also present.
