Telangana: BRS Launches ‘Gurukul Bata’ Tour to Expose School Negligence
Hyderabad: The BRS party would begin a week-long ‘Gurukul bata’ study tour with its leaders visiting all the Gurukul schools in Telangana for an on the spot assessment of the conditions at the schools and the party would raise its findings in the next upcoming Assembly session, BRS party working president K.T. Rama Rao announced on Wednesday.
He said the serial cases of food poisonings in Gurukul schools in the state were a pointer to how Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy holding the education portfolio, does not care about the fate of the school-going children from poor families in the state. He said a study committee of BRS leaders headed by R.S. Praveen Kumar would visit all the Gurukul, KGBV and model schools in the state and submit a report to the party. The BRS will take up the findings and raise them in the Assembly to highlight the neglect of the schools by the Revanth Reddy government. “The Chief Minister, despite several deaths from food poisonings, has not held a single review meeting on the issue,” Rama Rao said.
The BRS leader said it was tragic that 48 students have lost their lives in the state since the Congress party came to power and there were at least 38 instances of food poisoning among students during the same period.
“In all, 886 children suffered as a consequence of food poisoning and it was unconscionable that the state government repeatedly ignored these incidents,” Rama Rao said. Had the government acted when the first case occurred, such incidents would not have repeated, Rama Rao said, adding that “it appears to be a deliberate strategy of Revanth Reddy to distance SC, ST and BC communities students from getting an education.”
