Nara Lokesh holds meeting to revamp Andhra academic system

Minister for IT and Electronics, Nara Lokesh, on Saturday directed the officials of the education department to see that all the schools in Andhra Pradesh are provided with all kinds of basic facilities within one year.

At a review meeting held with senior officers of the education department at his residence in Amaravathi, Nara Lokesh directed the officials to complete all the pending work in all the schools within one year, including the incomplete phase-2 and phase-3 work taken up by the last government.

Lokesh also inquired about the quality of food being supplied to the students for mid-day meal and asked Ambedkar, the director of the Mid-day meal scheme, to submit a detailed report on the steps to be taken to provide quality food for the students.

He also directed the officers to conduct a detailed study on the policies adopted by the New Delhi government on sanitation and maintenance of cleanliness inside schools.

Lokesh also directed the officials to submit a detailed report on how many students have migrated from government schools to private educational institutions in the past five years and the reasons for their migration, besides a detailed report on the drop-out rate in those five years. How far their respective schools are located to the students in their villages should also be included in these reports, he said.

Lokesh also sought details of how many schools were closed in the state in these five years and the reasons behind it. He specifically asked the director of libraries to find out where is the best model library in the country and submit a detailed note on that library after a review. He also directed the officers concerned to submit a comprehensive report on the quality and utilisation of content of BYJU's and the IFB.

Lokesh specifically asked the officials about the steps being taken to provide the quality of coaching to the 82,000 students who are appearing for the Class 10 exams this year, besides a detailed report on the CBSE schools in the state, and directed them to complete by the end of this month the exercise of providing kits to the students.

He also wanted the official machinery to complete by July 15 the process of supplying text-books, notebooks and other materials to the students of government junior colleges and expressed surprise at knowing that the former government had failed to supply this material to the students last year.

Lokesh inquired about the cycles purchased by the earlier TDP regime but were not supplied to the beneficiaries and wanted all the details on these cycles to be submitted to him soon.

He made it clear that hereafter the transfers of teachers will be done in the most transparent way and all the facilities provided to the educational institutions by the earlier TDP regime will be revived. The Minister told the officials to formulate plans on the proper utilisation of the central funds.