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‘Strengthen education sector'

Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD: Andhra Pradesh Save Education Committee (APSEC) has requested the State Government to strengthen public education and take steps to curb commercialisation of private education. Speaking to mediapersons here on Saturday, State president of APSEC K. Chakradhara Rao suggested the Centre to amend the Right to Education Act to strengthen common school system and to control the greedy private educational institutions.

He alleged that the recent rationalisation of teacher posts in the State had left 5,000 Government schools jobless and reduced another 3,000 schools to single-teacher institutions in violation of the RTE. Urging the government to appoint qualified teachers in all primary, upper primary and high schools as per the RTE provisions, Prof. Rao also sought supply of textbooks and uniforms to students without further delay.

General secretary of APSEC, Prof. G. Haragopal, said that the newly established universities in the State neither have infrastructure nor faculty. Instead of strengthening 500-odd universities and 25,000 colleges, the Centre had opened flood gates for commercialisation of higher and professional education by proposing to bring in Foreign Universities Bill, he alleged. The APSEC would organise a postcard campaign across the State in July asking people to write to their MPs against the proposed higher education bill, its organising secretary D. Ramesh Patnaik stated.

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