547 classrooms will be built in State: Minister

KADAPA: The UPA government enacted Right To Education Act with an objective to ensure compulsory education of all children between six and 14 years of age, Minister for Minority Welfare Mohd. Ahmedullah said on Friday.

Five hundred and forty seven additional classrooms would be built in the State with an outlay of Rs.21 crore, the Minister said. In all, 107 additional class rooms were being inaugurated in 60 schools in Kadapa district with an outlay of Rs.4.28 crore, he added.

Inauguration

Mr. Ahmedullah inaugurated 12 additional classrooms, built at a cost of Rs.47.04 lakh in five schools in Kadapa. He opened four additional class rooms, built with Rs. 15.04 lakh in in the Municipal Urdu high school at Nakkash, one classroom each in the mandal parishad high school at Bachumpalle Harijanawada and municipal primary school at Bhagatsingh Nagar and three rooms each in A.P. Residential School for Girls in Chinna Chowk and YSR regional sports school at Putlampalle.

Uniforms

The Central and State governments were according utmost priority to the education sector, the Minister said. Eighty five per cent of textbooks were distributed among students in the district, which was allotted the highest quota of books, he said. Textbooks with new syllabus would be distributed soon. Each student was being given a pair of uniforms.

The Minister disbursed scholarships of Rs.1.15 lakh among 115 minority students besides, textbooks and notebooks in the Urdu high school at Nakkash. He promised to strive for educational development of minorities and urged them to study. The Urdu schools at Nakkash, Kagithalapenta and Nandalur were upgraded, he said.

He inspected the quality of food supplied in mid-day meals scheme in the school at Bachumpalle and directed Transco SE Lakshminarayana to provide electricity to Bachumpalle Harijanawada within a day.

He told Kadapa Municipal Commissioner D. John Samson to take steps to resolve the drinking water and street lighting problems in the area.

On finding students studying in the verandah in the social welfare residential school, he admonished the principal Sainath for seeking additional classrooms without utilising the existing ones.

Collector V.Anil Kumar, Rajiv Vidya Mission Project Officer Suryanarayana Reddy, Regional Sports School Special Officer Ramachandra Reddy, Kadapa MEO Parimala Sujana, DE Murahari Reddy, GCDO Anupama, teachers and students participated.