Telangana stir: Parents urge CM to get schools re-opened

Updated on: Friday, October 14, 2011

Anxious parents requested Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy to ensure that their wards' academic year was not spoiled in the wake of the Telangana strike.

A committee of parents' associations met Reddy here and complained about the prolonged closure of schools even after the Dusshera vacation, which ended on October 9, in the city and other parts of Telangana region.

All educational institutions should be kept out of the strikes. The students' careers should not be jeopardised, the worried parents told the chief minister.

Reddy assured the parents that government is taking steps to get the educational institutions re-opened.

Later, the committee members told reporters they request Telangana Joint Action Committee not to play with the careers of students.

"When bars, shopping malls, cinema halls and other establishments are doing their business without any hindrance, why are educational institutions being forced to shut down?" an angry parent questioned.

"We will wait till October 15 when the TJAC will meet to decide on the course of the ongoing general strike. If they don't let educational institutions function, we will sit and chalk out our course of action," a member said.

Meanwhile, despite assurance by police that adequate security would be provided to schools and colleges, majority of the institutions continued to extend their holidays.

SMSes are being sent to parents every night informing parents that schools or colleges would "remain closed tomorrow".

Threats from the Telangana-Joint Action Committee (TJAC) notwithstanding, some schools, however, have been functioning for the past two days.

Reacting to the threat issued to certain educational institutions by TJAC leader M Kodandaram, who himself is a professor, Additional DGP (Law and Order) Syed Anwarul Huda said, "If a school or college management approach us with complaints about such threatening calls, we will take action against the guilty as well as provide adequate security to the institute."

Telangana stir: Parents urge CM to get schools re-opened

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