Will upgrade government residential schools on par with private ones: Karnataka Minister HC Mahadevappa

Ankita is the only student to get cent per cent marks in all subjects this year.

She belongs to a humble background as her father Basappa Konnur is a farmer and her mother is a homemaker.

“As part of the continuation of this magnanimous performance of social welfare department schools, I have decided to make sure that all our government schools are upgraded on par with the most sophisticated ones,” state Social Welfare Minister HC Mahadevappa told PTI.

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‘Students from humble background’

According to official sources, there are 833 residential schools in Karnataka named after Morarji Desai, Kittur Rani Chennamma, BR Ambedkar, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Indira Gandhi, Masti Venkatesh Ayyangar and Ekalavya.

The KREIS also manages pre-university colleges.

The state government aims at scientific and intellectual enhancement of students’ knowledge and mindset.

A majority of students in social welfare department residential schools hail from a humble background, he explained.

“It is imperative to think of a state-of-the-art infrastructure for an advanced education system. Our government is all committed to making the dreams of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar a reality by establishing a rational society backed by an intellectually and socially awakened mass of people.”

On the KREIS schools, he said there would be free and direct admission to the students from the most underprivileged sections such as rag pickers, ex-manual scavengers, graveyard labourers, children who are rescued from child labour, bonded labour, and orphan children.

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Shares performances of government schools

Mahadevappa also shared the data on the performance of six types of government schools run by the social welfare departments.

While the overall percentage of pass students in the Karnataka SSLC examination was 73.4, government-run residential schools got 96 percent.

The overall percentage of students who scored Grade A marks ranging between 90 to 100 percent was 5.58 percent. But, the number of residential school students who made it to Grade A was 9.22 percent.

There was a very small number of students who fared poorly in the SSLC exam this year.

Out of 798 government residential schools, 358 registered 100 per cent pass results, the minister noted.

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