The Telangana State Government has finalised the parameters for setting up of 180 out of 250 residential schools and colleges announced by Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao at the B.R. Ambedkar birth anniversary celebrations last month.
The 180 institutions include 100 for SCs, 50 for STs and 30 residential degree colleges, all for boys and girls.
The remaining 70 which did not figure at a meeting on Wednesday to discuss the parameters concerned minority residential schools.
The meeting, presided over by Mr. Rao, decided that all those Assembly constituencies which did not have a single school would get at least one school.
All the SC constituencies must have at least two or three residential schools, a release said.
Heavy demand
Those districts where there was heavy demand for admissions like Mahabubnagar, Warangal, Nalgonda, Adilabad and Medak should get priority.
All the Assembly constituencies where the SC population was more than 15 per cent should get at least one new school. Girls’ schools should be located close to urban centres.
Unrepresented mandals that were close to urban centres must be given priority. Degree colleges must be located nearer to universities in urban centres to cover at last three constituencies.
One per mandal
The Chief Minister told the meeting that ultimately each mandal in Telangana would get one residential institution in due course when the programme is fully implemented at a later stage.
The ‘KG to PG’ programme of the Government will be integrated with the institutions.
Mr. Rao also ordered regularisation of services of 758 contract teachers and 18 other teachers working on ad-hoc basis at the existing residential schools.
The contract teachers were employed for over nine years.
