Agriculture Minister P. Srinivas Reddy said the government would spend Rs. 1 lakh on each student of residential schools to provide quality English education, food, and accommodation every year.

Inaugurating the Minority Girls’ Residential School at Mopal village in the mandal on Monday, he said 71 new minority residential schools would be launched in the current academic year, and each school would be built on a sprawling five-acre land at a cost of Rs. 20 crore. The idea behind this project is to make every poor student employable for jobs in top multinational companies, Mr. Reddy said.

Besides, 100 social welfare residential schools, 25 tribal welfare schools, and 30 girls’ degree colleges would also start functioning this year, he said.

Presiding over the inaugural meeting, local MLA Bajireddy Govardhan said two tribal welfare schools were also sanctioned to Nizamabad rural constituency. He expressed happiness over the inaugural of the first minority residential school in his constituency out of six in the district.