Schools to be linked with engineering colleges: Botsa

Visakhapatnam: Education Minister Botsa Satyanarayana has said schools would be linked with the engineering colleges in Andhra Pradesh. He said each engineering college would be linked with 10 to 15 schools.

The senior students and faculty of the engineering college would help the school students in learning digital technology. He would suggest the final year engineering college students to have their study tours to the schools.

The minister said digital education was being provided to the state school students from the sixth class and “only AP is doing this” in the country. The idea was to train the students in the  latest technology so that they would learn new skills to compete at the global level.

“The students are lucky to have a chief minister like Jagan Reddy, who is taking a lot of interest in such matters,’’ the minister told the meeting that was organised to reward students who topped in seventh class and Intermediate examinations, under the ‘Animutyalu’ programme in Cheepurupalli.

He said the toppers would be given rewards at the district level on June 17 and at state level on June 20 in which the chief minister would participate.

The minister later inaugurated the interactive learning panel at the Cheepurupalli government boys school. He presented a reward of '15,000 each to the  toppers of Intermediate in his home constituency Cheepurupalli. They were MPC topper Munakala Uma, BiPC topper Badari Krishnaveni, HEC topper Dasari Shanmukha Rao and MEC topper Bali Keerthi.

He also presented a cheque for Rs 15,000 to SSC topper Laveti Tejasri and Yalakala Sai Sphoorthi and Rs 10,000 to second toppers Meesala Lavanya and Ippili Leelavathi. The minister presented Rs 5,000 to Tadela Ganesh for coming third. The minister also felicitated the parents of the award winners.