The conference, organised by the TPF at the Press Club in Mahbubnagar, was part of the party’s 12‑day Vidya Bus Yatra, a campaign aimed at exposing deficiencies in government‑school infrastructure and the rising expense of private education.
Core committee member Srujana Yadav told the gathering that the condition of the public education system should be treated as a key indicator of good governance, arguing that the quality of state‑run schools reflects whether a government is delivering on its promises.
Retired bureaucrat M.V. Reddy estimated that close to 50 lakh (five million) families in Telangana are affected by the lack of quality education in government schools, noting that many parents are compelled to enrol their children in private institutions, often at a significant financial strain.
During the Vidya Bus Yatra the TPF team staged a ‘Badi Nidra’ – an overnight stay at Mudireddypalli MPPS School in Manugonda – to draw attention to concrete infrastructure shortfalls such as dilapidated classrooms and insufficient facilities.
Former chair of the Telangana Education Commission, Akunuri Murali, questioned participants on whether they had observed any improvement in government schools over the past three years; the consensus was that little or no progress had been made. Murali urged sustained public demand and collective action to secure quality education as a constitutional right.
Other TPF committee members present at the conference included Padmaja Shaw, Muppuri Kumaranna and Nikhil Vijaya Krishna, underscoring the party’s broader mobilisation around the education issue.