In an effort to prevent delay in supply of school uniforms free of cost to students of State-run schools in 2017-18 academic year, government agencies have embarked on dispatching the cloth required for stitching the uniforms ahead of the beginning of the new academic year.
The school education department placed the indent for the cloth with mutually aided cooperative societies of weavers through the government agencies over a month ago.
There are around 1,426 State-run schools, including 1,065 primary schools, with an estimated student strength of 75,000 in the district.
This apart, dozens of ashram schools and other residential educational institutions are functioning under the aegis of the Integrated Tribal Development Agency, Bhadrachalam.
The government agencies have expedited the process of dispatching the uniform cloth to mandal resource centres for stitching at the school point under the supervision of school management committees concerned.
The move attained significance in the backdrop of the inordinate delay in supply of school uniform to students of the government/zilla parishad and other State-runs schools in the last academic year in Telangana State.
"The mandal and cluster resource persons have been asked to work in tandem under the supervision of the MEOs to ensure speedy completion of the uniform stitching process to facilitate their distribution among the students on June 12, the day of reopening of schools in 2017-2018 academic year, said V Nageswara Rao, in-charge District Educational Officer., Bhadradri Kothagudem.
