Education Minister Nara Lokesh soon after realizing that employees of Kuppam Dravidian University have not been paid salaries for the last one year by the previous YCP regime, he has cleared all dues at once. Soon after employees brought this issue to his notice, he got an issue of a GO releasing Rs 2.86 crore pending salaries immediately.
Lokesh said that currently the coalition government is taking all measures to put the higher education sector back on track, which was crippled by the Jaganmohan Reddy government in the last 5 years. The people’s government led by Chandrababu Naidu in the state is taking all the necessary steps to improve the standard of education, he tweeted.
On the other hand, he has taken a key decision regarding school attendance. The Director of School Education has issued orders to record the attendance of students in the classrooms of every school across the state on the board.
Exactly how many students are there on the right side of the blackboard in the school classrooms? How many attended? How many were absent? It is suggested to register. All managements along with private schools have been ordered to follow this.
Also, the government has taken a key decision regarding the students of class 10 who are studying in 1000 government schools with CBSE affiliated recognition in the state. As the teachers do not have proper training to prepare the students for CBSE examinations, Lokesh feared that there is a possibility that most of the students will have trouble in the final exams due to lack of adequate preparation for CBSE.
On the other hand, the government has recently released the pending salaries of nurses and watchmen. While the previous government kept these salaries pending, now Lokesh cleared all pending salaries.
When Minister Lokesh came to know about the pending salaries, he immediately responded and ordered to release the arrears. As a result, the AP government has released arrears of Rs. 64.38 crores for the salaries of nurses and watchmen, and Rs. 25.52 crores for toilet cleaning material arrears, totaling Rs. 89.9 crores.
