Manabadi first step towards big change: CM YS Jagan Mohan Reddy

Ongole: Chief minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy launched the Manabadi Naadu-Nedu programme during a meeting arranged at the PVR Boys High School in Ongole on Thursday.

He said that the state government is committed to bringing reformations in the school and college education, including the conversion of government schools into English medium.

He said the government was being criticised when it wanted to do good to society. This decision will change the fate of poor and downtrodden people in society. He said he does not want children of the poorer sections to end up as drivers or get into such small type jobs.

He said the world is changing very fast and is becoming dependent on technologies like smartphones, the internet, artificial intelligence and robotics. "If we don't take measures to make the children future ready, we would be failing in our responsibility," he said.

He alleged that while he is taking revolutionary decisions for the benefit of poor people, persons in politics, constitutional positions like the Vice-President, film stars are politically and personally targeting him.

"By June or July, all these schools would be equipped with basic infrastructures like toilets, drinking water, fans and tubelights in classrooms, modern furniture, green boards, compound walls, English labs, extra classrooms and repairs would be taken up to the existing," he said.

These schools would be converted into English medium schools but will teach Telugu as a compulsory subject, he added. The chief minister announced that Amma Vodi programme will be launched on January 9 and asked the mothers to send their children to schools to receive Rs 15,000 to meet the expenditure.

He said it would be extended to degree, engineering and others courses that will provide Rs 20,000 per year to meet the hostel and mess bills of their children.