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Academic standards in schools tumbled due to erstwhile Govt's imprudent decisions: AP Minister

Amaravati, Mar 19 (UNI) Andhra Pradesh Minister for Education, IT and Electronics, Nara Lokesh, on Wednesday expressed deep concern on the academic standards in schools in the state which had fallen deeply due to the imprudent decisions of the previous YSRCP government.
Replying to the members Duvvarapu Rama Rao, P Ashok Babu and B Tirumala Naidu, in the Legislative Council, Lokesh regretted that when compared to the academic standards from 2014 to 2024, during the YSRCP rule the fifth class students felt very difficult to read even the second grade Telugu books.
"The Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) has clearly mentioned that while 57 percent of the students could easily read the books in 2014 the percentage has fallen to 37.5 during the YSRCP rule," the Minister noted.
In 2014, almost 80 percent of the eighth standard students could easily read second grade Telugu books, this has fallen to 53 percent by 2024, he regretted.
During the YSRCP government, the total strength of government schools and junior colleges came down by a whopping 12 lakh which has now reached to a mere 33.4 lakh, Lokesh claimed.
The YSRCP government had forcibly imposed the inadvertent decisions and unplanned reforms on parents and teachers, the Minister observed and felt that the students opted private schools as local issues were not taken into consideration while releasing the GO 117.
Declaring that 10 to 15 radical reforms are being introduced in the academic sector by the TDP-led NDA Government to improve the educational standards, he made it clear that political interference will be totally avoided in the process of the transfer of teachers.
With a view of getting the best outcome, the Cabinet passed the Teachers Transfers Act which is now presented before the Assembly on Wednesday which will come before the Upper House on Thursday, the Education Minister said.
Technology will be incorporated into teaching, he said, adding that after the lessons are taught the teachers should present a 60-second video to sum-up the lessons and the students will be assessed later with the help of Clicker Technology.
Maintaining that a mega teacher meeting has already been conducted, Lokesh asserted that this kind of meeting will be conducted twice in the coming academic year. An excellent progress card has also been designed for an interaction among the teachers, parents and students, the Minister stated.
The NDA Government is making every effort to extend quality education to students through Model Primary School concept by appointing one teacher for a class which has over 60s tudent strength, he said.
Lokesh revealed that the outcome in all the education will go up by leaps and bounds and the TDP-led NDA Government is taking this responsibility.
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