Minister directs to monitor the SC hostels round- the -clock

By Our Special Correspondent

Social Welfare Minister Merugu Nagarjuna said that in view of the huge demand for seats in scheduled caste gurukula schools, a seat should be provided to every student belonging to scheduled castes.

After the Minister reviewed the performance of Social Welfare Department at the Secretariat on Wednesday, the Minister directed the officials to have continuous monitoring in the hostels of SC students and to focus more on the tenth class students.

Despite the demand for seats in SC Gurukul schools, admissions are limited to 640 seats sanctioned in the schools.

The minister warned the officials to ensure that there are no vacancies in any school while giving admissions to the students. They should also ensure that there are no vacancies of teaching posts in proportion to the ratio of students.

Minister Nagarjuna reviewed the situation of SC Gurukul schools where the demand is high with the district level officials. In the recent 10th class results, students of SC hostel did not perform well and expressed concern, alleging that the supervision of the teachers was not good.

The Deputy Directors were directed to make unannounced visits to the hostels and 24-hour monitoring of the hostels. It would be good if the hostel welfare officers stay in the hostels and monitor the students' studies.

Tutors can be hired to give special attention to class 9 students before class 10 lessons. The minister directed the state level officials to visit the SC hostels and understand and solve the problems.

The minister said that it has come to their attention that some hostel buildings need repairs and the authorities can send proposals to repair them. Sanjeeva Rao, Academic Monitoring Officer of BR Ambedkar Gurukul, Lakshmisudha, Deputy Director of SC Hostels, Deputy Directors and DCOs of various districts participated in the meeting.