‘Couldn’t help teachers due to money crunch’

Hyderabad: TRS working president and IT minister KT Rama Rao on Tuesday said the state government could not come to the rescue of 12 lakh teachers working in private educational institutions during lockdown due to state’s financial constraints.

“It is not that we ignored them. Since they are in huge number, the state government could not help them financially during the lockdown,” he said at an interaction programme at a college in Secunderabad. Taking potshots at the BJP and Congress for raising private schools teachers’ problems now, he wondered why did they not help the teachers in the states ruled by their parties.

KTR said the BJP government at the Centre has done nothing for Telangana. “The Centre has failed to give what was promised to Telangana in the AP Reorganisation Act. While Telangana has contributed Rs 2,72,000 crore to the Centre in the form of various taxes in the last six years, it has given only Rs 1.40 lakh crore to the state in the form of various schemes,” KTR said.

KTR said that in 65 years, before Telangana was formed, five government medical colleges were set up. But within six years, the TRS government has set up five new government medical colleges in Suryapet, Mahbubnagar, Nalgonda, Siddipet and Adilabad. “This is a testimony to the work we do,” he added.

Repeating his charge, KTR said the Centre did not grant a single institution like IIM, National Institute of Design, Navodaya Vidyalaya and medical colleges to Telangana in the last six years.