TPCC Chief alleges CM KCR over Telangana Educational System

Hyderabad, Dec 22: The Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) President Capt. N. Uttam Kumar Reddy has alleged on Thursday that the wrong priorities set by Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao and the distorted logic adopted by his government have ruined the entire education sector in Telangana State.

Speaking at the Round Table Conference organized by KG to PG Educational Institutions Joint Action Committee at Sundarayya Vignana Kendram here on Thursday, Uttam Kumar Reddy said Telangana was apparently the only State in the country where a number of educational institutions and students' enrolment were on the decline.

During the last three-and-a-half years, the situation has worsened not only in government institutions but also in private institutions.

Quoting figures compiled by the JAC, he said while there were 2100 junior colleges in Telangana in 2014-15, they got reduced to 1650 in 2017-18. While the students' enrolment in government junior colleges reduced from 4.45 lakh in 2014-15 to 4.30 lakh in 2017-18, it declined from 3.20 lakh to 2.90 lakh students in corporate colleges. The number of lecturers too got reduced by 1,000 to 56,000 in 2017-18.

Similarly, the number of Affiliated Degree Colleges came down from 1078 in 2014-15 to 960 in 2017-18, while 25 Affiliated PG Colleges were closed during the same period.

Consequently, the number of students got reduced by over 5,000. The number of degree and PG residential colleges remained static at 180 with 1.70 lakh students during the last three years. He also expressed concern over reported closure of over 3100 primary schools under TRS regime.