Andhra Pradesh - Vijayawada   

‘Ensure re-enrolment of known dropouts in schools'

VIJAYAWADA: Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy has ordered Secondary Education Minister K. Parthasarathi not to come to the State Capital until all the known dropouts in his native Krishna district have been re-enrolled into schools.

Addressing students of ZP high schools, dropouts who had been re-enrolled, and their parents after symbolically inaugurating 1,076 school buildings at Edupugallu ZP High School here on Tuesday, the Chief Minister said it was the duty of every elected representative to ensure that all the known dropouts were re-enrolled into schools.

He said a fortnight-long re-enrolment drive was launched in the State on June 13. As many as 38,000 out of the 1.27 lakh children below the age of 15, who were known dropouts, had been re-enrolled.

Literacy rate

He said Andhra Pradesh was considered highly developed when compared to several other States, but he had to hang his head in shame in front of the Planning Board because the literacy rate was 67 per cent only.

He set a target of achieving 100 per cent literacy in the State in the next two years. According to the records, there were 2,450 dropouts who were below 15 years in Krishna district.

Of them, only 1,022 had been re-enrolled and another 1,043 dropouts need to be enrolled. The Chief Minister urged the parents to go by the aptitude of the children.

He said engineering and medicine were not the be-all and end- all of education. Those interested in sports and arts should however finish schooling because there was no social change without education. Minister for Primary Education S. Sailajanath appealed to the teachers to put in their best efforts to provide quality education to the students in government schools. He urged the Chief Minister to increase the budget allocation for education to 20 per cent.

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