Telugu must up to 10th standard: CM KCR

Chief minister K Chandrashekhar Rao instructed officials to initiate measures for introducing Telugu as a compulsory subject to be taught in all private and government schools in the state with effect from the academic year 2018-19, and an Act will be passed during the ongoing assembly session.

On Tuesday, the chief minister met the team of officials who visited Tamil Nadu to study implementation of Tamil in educational institutions there. He discussed with them guidelines to be framed to teach Telugu as a compulsory subject.

“We have decided that Telugu will be taught as a compulsory subjects in private and government schools to save the language and protect the culture. It has become a necessity for everyone these days to study in the English medium with the changing circumstances.



Children’s future should not be disturbed, and at the same time Telugu should not be neglected. This is the reason we are putting a condition that even children studying in the English medium should study Telugu as a subject,” said KCR at the meeting at Pragati Bhavan.

Initially it was felt that Telugu should be made a compulsory subject till the Intermediate level. However, since the Intermediate course is not the same in all the educational institutions, it was felt it would be difficult to introduce Telugu as a compulsory language at this stage.

The CM asked Telugu Sahitya Academy and Telugu University to prepare class wise syllabus for teaching Telugu. “The course material should have content that inculcates patriotism and ethical values among the children,” he said.