Telangana plans to establish 105 Young India integrated residential schools across the state, each spread over 20 to 25 acres and estimated to cost Rs 200 crore, Deputy Chief Minister Bhatti Vikramarka Mallu said at a programme in Warangal on Wednesday. The proposed campuses will offer English-medium education to students from Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe, Backward Class, minority and other communities on a common residential campus.
Bhatti said the state government’s priority was to ensure quality education for every child from pre-primary through higher education. He said the integrated residential schools and Telangana public schools were being developed under the leadership of Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy, with the stated objective of providing equal educational opportunities and making the state’s education system a national model.
The proposed residential schools will combine schooling and accommodation in one campus. The government has said the institutions will include trained teachers and digital learning facilities, although the announcement did not specify construction schedules, locations for all 105 campuses, tender arrangements or the phase-wise funding plan.
Alongside the residential schools, the state plans to establish a Telangana public school in every Assembly constituency. These schools are expected to provide education from pre-primary to Class 12 and transport facilities for students travelling between their homes and school campuses. The programme is intended to expand access to publicly funded schooling while reducing the distance-related barriers faced by students in different parts of the state.
The government has also said students at the proposed public schools will receive free books, notebooks, school bags and uniforms. Breakfast and lunch will be provided six days a week, according to the announcement. The measures place school access, transport, learning facilities and nutrition within a single public education delivery framework rather than treating them as separate interventions.
Bhatti said nearly 27 lakh students in government, Zilla Parishad, municipal and residential schools across Telangana were already being provided nutritious breakfast every day. Food for the initiative is prepared in centralised kitchens and delivered to schools between 8.30 am and 9.30 am, he said. The announcement did not provide a separate budget for the nutrition programme or details of its monitoring arrangements.
The Deputy Chief Minister was speaking after laying the foundation stone for a Telangana public school in the Warangal West constituency, represented by MLA Naini Rajender Reddy. The event was held on the birth anniversary of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, India’s first education minister. MP Kadiyam Kavya, MLC Baswaraju Saraiah, MLA KR Nagaraju, finance corporation chairman Sirisilla Rajiah, KUDA chairman Gundu Sudharani and district collector Chahat Bajpai were among those present.
The state’s next implementation steps will determine when construction begins on the planned campuses, how sites are selected and when students can be admitted. The government has not yet announced a statewide completion timeline for the 105 integrated residential schools or the proposed public schools in every Assembly constituency.
