KCR targets Andhra corporate schools, colleges

Asks managements of educational institutions from Telangana to take the sector into their hands

Telangana Rashtra Samithi K. Chandrashekar Rao at the Telangana Recognized Schools Management Association (TRSMA) state committee meeting held at Telangana Bhavan in Hyderabad on Sunday.Photo:Mohammed Yousuf

Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) president K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Sunday expressed his firm resolve to end corporate education in Telangana by managements from coastal districts as it was aimed at uprooting the educational system in the region.

Asking the managements of educational institutions from Telangana to take the sector completely into their hands, Mr. Rao said he would see that corporate education did not spread in the region through its chain of institutions. He would ensure that managements from coastal districts were denied permission to set up schools and colleges. The TRS president was addressing a meeting of Telangana Recognised School Managements Association at the party office.

‘Provide inputs'

Appealing to the association to provide inputs to TRS whenever managements from coastal districts wanted to start institutions in Telangana, Mr. Rao said, “You just leave it to us after that. The TRS army will drive them away. But, do not indulge in such a thing yourself.”

He narrated, in this context, how the management of Gowtham Model School was forced to withdraw its move to start schools at Karimnagar and Devarakonda. The management was so scared that it did not even lodge a police complaint when one of its school buses was burnt by protestors at Siddipet. The incident was hidden to avoid similar treatment to its fleet elsewhere in the region.

Mr. Rao said he was determined to protect the interests of over 20,000 private school managements of Telangana against “corporate sharks” from coastal districts which had their sights on exploiting everything in the region. He asked them to introduce English medium and CBSE syllabus in their schools so as to mould the children of Telangana to face global competition for career building. He appealed to private managements of Telangana to close their schools during the ensuing general strike. This was also the request of government teachers.

Telangana joint action committee chairman M. Kodandaram drew a parallel between educational institutions in coastal districts and Telangana saying they came up with surplus income from agriculture in the former, whereas they were a source of livelihood in the latter. He said the corporate schools and colleges mushroomed in Telangana without permission. The government was helpless to the situation.