In an effort to revive government school education system, the chairmen of two School Management Committees (SMC) from Ranga Reddy district joined hands and launched a postcard campaign to sensitise headmasters of all government schools in the State to improve admissions.
The two activists – S.B.N. Chary from Vanasthalipuram and M. Pavan Kumar from Aliabad village of Shameerpet mandal – had sent post cards to all the 3,800 government high schools in the State in the first phase urging the headmasters to educate parents to ensure admission of all school-aged children in government school. They formed a group, Bharatiya Vidyardhi Reservation Samithi (BVRS), to gather support for their campaign from activists working in the field.
By the time the new academic year commences on June 12, Mr. Chary and Mr. Kumar want to send post cards to all the 26,000 government schools in the State. Apart from that, they have also sought details of those teachers who have admitted their children into government schools. The representatives of BVRS will visit all such schools to felicitate such teachers, apart from presenting a Rs. 5,000 for setting an example for others.
Urging the Telangana government to implement the Allahabad High Court observations, which asked politicians and officials to send their children to government schools to improve the education system, Mr. Chary asked Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao to issue a government order to make admitting the children of politicians, teachers and officials into government schools mandatory, apart from making government schooling must for competing for government jobs. On seeing the poor quality of teachers, Mr. Chary, who is a painter by profession, removed his two children from a private school five years ago and for them admitted to the ZPHS, Vanasthalipuram, where he was elected chairman of SMC. With the help parents and teachers, he has improved the strength of the school from 320 to 750 in the last five years.
Mr. Kumar too got his children admitted into ZPHS, Aliabad, from a private school three years ago. Soon after, he started working for improving the basic facilities at Aliabad.
Mr. Chary and Mr. Kumar came to Nalgonda on Tuesday to post all the cards.
