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This morning I visited Jawahar Nagar, which is known as the largest slum area and also home to Ramky’s massive 350 acre dump yard in Hyderabad. The majority of families (close to 3 lakh population and 1.2 lakh children) living here are homeless or survive on daily wage labor.
Just three years ago, there was no school at all for children in this cluster, that houses 4 lakhs.
Today, a small school is educating 120+ incredibly talented but underprivileged children. I visited this school two years ago and strongly pushed for the Telangana Government to support it. Thankfully, the government responded by adopting the school and sanctioning a 4 acre land to build a compisite school from Nursery to 12th grades.
Unfortunately, the land has now been encroached upon by socially affluent people in close contact with local political groups and elected politician, who have even filed a writ petition to block the construction of the sanctioned composite school from Nursery to 12th grades.
The 100 slums in Jawaharnagar only have 8 govt primary schools, 2 govt high schools and 0 govt junior colleges in the whole of Kapra Mandal for 1.2 lakh children — This is 2.7% of the total children/student population in th State. This shall be the 9th govt school to be established.
This is so deeply unfortunate.
Education cannot be denied to poor children because of land greed and political interference.
Hima Bindu and her team have conceived the idea of establishing a govt school in the Gabbilalpet slum cluster and shared that with proper infrastructure and facilities, the school could easily educate 5000+ children from marginalized communities.
The Government must act quickly, clear the encroachment, and ensure that the high school construction begins without delay.
For these children, this school is not just a building — it is their only pathway out of poverty and emancipation.
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