Telangana Opens 169 Residential Schools In A Day  

Hyderabad: The Telangana state government created a record on Monday by opening 169 residential schools in a single day for students from SC, ST, BC and minority categories. It started as many as 169 residential schools, out of 255 planned for the academic year 2017-18.

Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao congratulated the officials concerned for starting the residential schools on the first day of the academic year aimed. He also called upon the students who joined these schools to take inspiration from Mahatma Jyotirao Phule and Babasaheb Ambedkar and come up in life.

"Before the formation of the state there were only 259 residential schools for SC/ST/BC and Minorities and within three years of forming the state the government has taken the number to 527 and total schools will be 786 in future," the Chief Minister said.

On June 15, another 50 residential schools will be commenced. While, On June 19 another 21 schools will begin for the minorities. Besides this, 15 ST Women Degree Colleges will also start functioning from this academic year, he added.