The state government must allocate 20% of the budget for the education sector and immediately clarify a comprehensive education policy, the Telangana Save Education Committee government along with teachers and students’ associations demanded on Thursday.
The committee members met Telangana Higher Education Committee Chairman K. Keshava Rao to discuss various pressing issues related to the state’s education sector.
She expressed concern that the state government has not yet issued a clear and comprehensive education policy. Instead, it introduced initiatives such as National Education Policy 2020 proposals such as “Integrated Schools for Young India” and “Telangana Public Schools” without offering any clarity. Coupled with a very low allocation of 8.2% of the total education budget in the 2026-27 budget, this has led to public confusion. And in this uncertain environment, the private education sector is expanding rapidly, and many families are struggling with the burden of high and unaffordable school fees, she pointed out.
Apart from the immediate clarification and allocation of 20% of the budget to the education sector, the committee noted that pre-primary classes must be introduced in all state primary schools and ensure effective monitoring by filling all vacancies of superintendents.
Freeing teachers from all non-academic duties, strictly regulating private and corporate schools, and avoiding contract employment practices must be priorities for remedy.
The committee also opposes the establishment of UK-style private schools in Telangana and objects to key aspects of the NEP 2020 such as the four-year degree and multiple entry-exit system.
Instead, the state government must allocate substantial financial support of at least ₹100 crore to each university, grant pay scales of assistant professors to contract lecturers and fill up all teaching and non-teaching vacancies.
Published – 27 March 2026 19:07 IST
