Industries, Corporates To Help Boost Education

Exhorting industrialists and corporate companies to take up the responsibility of enhancing the education and research sectors, Deputy Chief Minister Kadiam Srihari today said that all schools in the State would go Digital by June 2017.

Speaking at a conference on excellence in education here along with IT & Municipal Administration Minister K T Rama Rao, the Deputy CM said that the State government aimed to provide free education with national standards in the State. He also said that the government would soon regularize the services of contract lecturers as promised in the Party manifesto, and also fill vacant posts. The government identified a few lapses in the education system and steps were being taken to plug them, he promised.

Srihari said that all the government schools and institutions in the State would be digitized by next June besides providing basic facilities and infrastructure to them.

Industrialists and corporate companies have to support the sector as well, he said adding that the government was striving to provide quality education for free, and efforts were on to see that over six lakh students got the opportunity after setting up of 1,250 to 1,300 Gurukul Schools for the purpose.

The Education Minister also said that measures were being taken to provide facilities and infrastructure to schools, including water and power supply, toilets, plants, running water, computer labs, compound walls, practical labs and other buildings by June 2017. In the first phase, 3,352 schools had gone digital and the rest would be digitized by June next.