New districts to hit state educational institutions

Government schools, hostels and colleges have been at the receiving end of the  state government’s plans to create new districts. 

Officials have identified existing government school and hostel buildings and taken them over to be used as accommodation for new government offices to be set up in the new districts.

Most of these school and hostels buildings that have been taken over by the officials are in and around the Mancherial.

According to sources, collectorate will be set up in the exiting building of tribal ashram school of ITDA near Degree College, ZP CEO’s office in the ST boys’ hostel building, BC welfare office in government BC integrated girls hostel, DEO office in Boys High school, ICDS Project director office in Balasadan hostel, inter-board RIO office in Government degree college. 

The treasury office in ST boys hostels and employment office in Government ITI for boys. A majority of the existing government buildings that have been taken over by the district officials are educational institutions.

There is no clarity whether the students will be adjusted in other hostels, schools and colleges or accommodated in rented houses after they are evicted from these buildings.

There is also no clarity on the size of the portion that will be utilized for new offices in the existing selected educational buildings or if the entire buildings will be used for the purpose. The district officials have selected school and hostel buildings also in and around the Nirmal town to set up government offices.

In most cases, district officials involved in the creation of new district selected available exiting district instead taking private buildings on rent for the government offices in order to reduce the expenditure.

A senior government teacher said, ‘Educational institutions are getting disturbed. This is leading students and their studies getting disturbed in process of creating new districts Mancherial and Nirmal’.

Residential schools find great demand

There is good demand for seats in social welfare residential schools and colleges run under TSWREI Society rather than private residential schools.

Parents admitted their children in social welfare residential schools far away from their villages as they see a bright future for their children.

D. Venkatalaxmi, District coordinating officer, TSWREI society said a crease has created for the admission in the residential schools was due to its unique programmes and good food and shelter and offering quality education.

She said as many as 7,000 students attended the test for class V this year and 8,000  for admission to the vacant seats in classes  VI to VIII.

The TSWREI is also holding summer camps for them and special programmes to improve English communication skills and spoken English. The mountaineering and rock climbing events for the students of the TSWREI brought the name and fame  for these institutions and its students Purna and Anand who climbed Mt Everest created a craze of sorts for admissions.

The existing demand for English medium education among the middle class and also poor has created demand for admission in these  schools where English is medium of instruction and majority of high schools upgraded to colleges.

Chindam Ramesh of Goleti said his son Vardhan Kumar finally got admission in class V in Social Welfare Residential School and said there was heavy competition for the seats in these institutions.

According to official sources, there are total 14 social welfare residential schools including five for boys and nine for girls in the district. As many as 8,550 students are studying in the already existing schools and 1,300 students got fresh admissions in new schools.

Kodipe Rajaiah of Tharividi in Kautala mandal who admitted their two daughters at Social Welfare Residential School at Asifabad said the institutions were offering quality education and focusing on the all-round development of the students.

Parents are of the opinion that things will improve at Social Welfare Residential Schools as the state government is going to fill nearly 5,000 teacher posts in these institutions soon.