Telangana: No Telugu Medium in schools
The total enrolment in schools in TS from Class I to X is 60 lakh, the enrolment in private schools is 32 lakh.
Hyderabad: There has been a strong demand from school managements for conversion of Telugu Medium schools into English Medium. The previous Congress government in June 2013 cited that it would be a blow to Telugu language at a time when it had conducted the World Telugu Conference at Tirupati in December 2012 to promote Telugu.
Since then the proposal is pending. The managements have now been urging the Telangana government to allow them conversion arguing that they were suffering huge financial losses. They said they were forced to run parallel English medium sections without government approval for survival.
“When Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao himself is talking about converting all government Telugu Medium schools into English Medium and the government has already converted Telugu Medium high schools into English Medium in the name of “Success Schools”, there is no point in insisting on us to continue Telugu Medium,” said TRSMA chief S. Sreenivas Reddy.
“The government feels that their demand is genuine. There is no meaning in the argument that the conversion will be a blow to Telugu language. All English Medium schools anyway have to offer Telugu as second language. Where is the question of neglecting Telugu?” said education minister Kadiam Srihari.
The total enrolment in schools in TS from Class I to X is 60 lakh, the enrolment in private schools is 32 lakh. Of them, four lakh are in Telugu Medium and parents want to shift them to English Medium.