TPFs vidya bus yatra reaches final leg at Gabbilalpet Government School
The primary school at Gabbilalpet in Jawaharnagar, Medchal-Malkajgiri is functioning from rented premises. | Photo credit: File photo
The Telangana People’s Front’s (TPF) 12-day Vidya Bus Yatra, which has been touring various districts since September 15 to highlight the concerns facing the education sector, reached its final leg on Saturday when the bus reached Gabbilalpet Government School.
The TPF team interacted with the parents of the students and organized a badi nidra on Saturday evening as part of the programme.
The primary school at Gabbilalpet in Jawaharnagar, Medchal-Malkajgiri is functioning from rented premises. The school has been secured through a sustained struggle by parents over the last four years and is the only government school serving the people of an area of around 50,000.
TPF organized a roundtable discussion with students, activists and NGOs on the state of school education on Sunday. Participants demanded targeted measures to strengthen public education and regulate the rising costs of private education.
A first-generation student from Jawaharnagar, Kavya, who completed her schooling at ZPHS, said children in Basti “must not grow up feeling like second-class citizens”.
TPF member MV Reddy emphasized that education enables individuals to attain high positions in society and said All-India services are not necessarily limited to candidates from elite backgrounds. Regarding the land demand for the Telangana Public School at Gabbilalpet, he said a negotiated solution must be found.
TPF member Champalal said that education and healthcare are basic needs and described it as shameful that even 80 years after independence, citizens continued to fight for basic education. He cited Telangana Public School, Arutla as an example of how government schools could provide full facilities and create opportunities for first generation students.
Venkat Reddy of the MV Foundation said that the proliferation of private schools had been allowed by successive governments without adequate standards or regulations.
According to TPF leader and former Telangana Education Commission Chairman Akunuri Murali, school education is in dire need of revival. He said the additional allocation of ₹6,000 crore annually for five years would be a small fraction of Telangana’s annual budget of ₹3.24 lakh crore and called for a surge in demand from parents.
Published – 27 Sep 2026 22:17 IST