Hyderabad: The Telangana government’s goal is to provide quality education to every child born here, said Deputy CM Bhatti Vikramarka Mallu on Wednesday, November 11.

He was speaking in Kazipet, which falls under Warangal West, after laying the foundation stone for a new Telangana Public School building. Warangal West Congress MLA Naini Rajender Reddy was also present.

Bhatti said that the Congress government was determined to provide quality education, starting from pre-primary to higher education, and has emerged as a pace-setter by establishing Young India Integrated Residential Schools and Telangana Public Schools.

“Our goal is that Telangana should compete with the top 10 nations in the world. As part of key decisions to this end, and drawing inspiration from Mahatma Gandhi’s Young India newspaper, the Congress government launched the Young India Integrated Residential Schools and the Telangana Public Schools,” the Deputy Chief Minister said.

‘Unparalleled network of schools’

Bhatti said that no other state in the country could boast of such a network of schools. The fully residential Young India schools, each being built on 20 to 25 acres, will have English as the medium of instruction; all teaching and non-teaching staff will also stay on campus; and students from all sections of the society will live and learn together.

Meanwhile, the Telangana Public Schools are not fully residential. “While we are building 105 Young India schools, each costing around Rs 200 crore, the Telangana Public Schools will be built in every Assembly constituency,” he said.

He said the event was significant, as the day also marked the birth anniversary of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, the country’s first Minister of Education, who laid a strong foundation for the development of the sector.

‘Plans afoot for schoolkids’

The Deputy CM said that students, from pre-primary to class 12, will have government transport to ferry them to and from school. At the school, they will get breakfast and lunch six days a week. They will also get textbooks, bags, and uniforms and will have trained teachers along with digital education.

He said the state government was already providing breakfast to children studying at Zilla Parishad, municipal, and residential schools. Currently, 27 lakh children receive breakfast at their schools across the state. “This in an initiative unparalleled anywhere else in the world. The breakfast is prepared in highly hygienic centralised kitchens and is delivered to all schools between 8.30 am and 9.30 am,” he said.