Hyderabad: Telangana State government has called upon public representatives, government officials, industrialists and others to adopt government schools.
Deputy Chief Minister Kadiam Srihari said people adopting residential schools should make it a point to sleep in the attached hostels for at least one night in a month.
The government hopes adoption of schools would improve their functioning. The government has also decided to include women’s safety as a special subject in the curriculum taught at girls’ schools.
CCTV cameras, intrusion alarms and police security will also be provided to residential girls’ schools. The decision was taken in the wake of the recent incident of intrusion into a girls’ hostel in Hayathnagar on the outskirts of Hyderabad.
The government asked police to step up security near girls’ hostels, but district police administrations wrote back to the government to instal surveillance infrastructure and compound walls in hostels.
A woman police constable would be also stationed at all hostels for security. District administrations have also been told to provide running water supply facilities to all the government schools.
Though the construction of toilets has been completed in all schools, about 26,000 schools don’t have running water supply.
Only 5,000 government schools have this facility now rendering them useless.
Drainage connections in these schools are also sparse. District Collectors have been told to use finances from different schemes to provide for running water supply.
