Telangana government on Wednesday announced that 119 residential schools would be established in the state for children belonging to backward classes.
"These schools will be established in the name of Mahatma Jyotiba Phule, who made efforts continuously for the development of BC's," chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao said in a statement in the Legislative Assembly.
Education would be imparted with high standards in English medium in BC residential schools from Class V to Intermediate, KCR said.