Hyderabad: Former Minister and senior BRS MLA T Harish Rao held the Congress government responsible for the recurring food poisoning cases in residential welfare schools across the State. He accused the government of gross negligence and demanded immediate action to prevent such incidents.
“Despite repeated food poisoning cases, the government’s approach remains unchanged. In less than 24 hours after 12 students from tribal welfare schools at Mancherial were hospitalised, more students were rushed to hospitals with vomiting and stomach pain. This indicates the government’s utter negligence to ensure basic safety for children,” he said.
Harish Rao took to X after the reports of more students getting admitted to hospital went viral on social media, and raised concern over the alarming situation in the erstwhile Adilabad district, where a total of 94 students from residential schools at Nirmal, Wankidi, and Mancherial, have been hospitalised, with two losing their lives due to fever.
“Three students from Wankidi Gurukul are still in critical condition at NIMS, yet the government continues to turn a blind eye,” he said, adding that the Congress rule has left a stain of inefficiency in the management of government residential welfare educational institutions.
BRSV State President Gellu Srinivas Yadav also criticised the Congress, condemning Minister Ponnam Prabhakar’s call for official celebrations of Chief Minister Revanth Reddy’s birthday in residential welfare schools. “Why should Revanth Reddy’s birthday be celebrated in residential welfare schools?
The government hasn’t even conducted a single review on the ongoing crisis in these educational institutions,” he remarked.
