Shift of Race Course Club and Chanchalguda Central Prison gets CM push

Hyderabad: Telangana State Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Tuesday asked the authorities to expedite steps to shift the Hyderabad Race Course Club and Chanchalguda Central Prison to the city outskirts so that the land can be used for building residential schools for minority boys and girls.

The CM directed officials of minorities welfare department to take steps to see that 60 residential English Medium schools, 30 each for girls and boys belonging to minority communities, functioned from the academic year 2016 in the state.

While holding a review on minorities’ welfare on Tuesday at the Secretariat, the CM directed authorities to take steps to recruit 2,100 teaching and non-teaching staff required to run the residential schools. He asked officials to issue notifications for the recruitment of teachers along with the notification of DSC 2016.

The schools will be run with funds allocated to the minorities’ welfare department.