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• CM Revanth Reddy orders urgent review of Telangana’s education system to address sharp dropout rates between Class 10 and Intermediate, terming it an ‘academic disconnect’.
• Proposes integrated Class 9-12 model, student counselling, vocational training, and weekly monitoring to boost Intermediate retention and performance.
• Pushes for infrastructure revamp with boys’ and girls’ residential schools in every constituency and faster execution of Veeranari Chakali Ilamma Women’s University.

Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy called for a scrupulous review of the state education department at the Integrated Command and Control Centre, giving a firm instruction not just should every student who clears Class 10 take Intermediate (Class 11 and 12), but also complete it successfully. He was very concerned about the steep decline between SSC success and completion of Intermediate, calling it an 'academic disconnect' that sabotages young people's future prospects.

Revanth stressed that the Dip in Intermediate pass percentages is in comparison to the excellent performance in Class 10. He appealed to the authorities to determine the causative factors whether structural inefficiencies, socio-economic obstacles, or counseling lacunae and tackle them head-on with focused programs to increase pass percentages genome-wide. 

To close this gap, the CM ordered a comparative study of school systems in other Indian states where an integrated Class 9-12 has yielded improved retention. He wants the report to be holistic and drawn from the wisdom of the State Education Commission, NGOs, and civil society, and findings placed in the Telangana Legislative Assembly for discussion.

Acknowledging the key role played by the Intermediate phase towards career moulding, Revanth emphasized not just enrollment but regular attendance and academic guidance. He assigned the task to officials to frame support mechanisms academic counselling, psychological counselling, and vocational training to improve student readiness for board examinations.

Infrastructure build-out was also high on the agenda. The CM went through Young India Residential School architecture plans with a flourish, directing one boys' and one girls' residential school to be constructed in each Assembly constituency, with land acquisition for the first of each already done. He directed large national flags to be erected at each campus as a symbol of unity and wanted weekly progress updates to monitor accountability.
Revanth also reviewed the design of the proposed Veeranari Chakali Ilamma Women's University, recommending certain changes and directing that tender procedures be speeded up for the purpose of accelerating actual construction.

Present at the review meeting were major advisers such as Vem Narender Reddy and K. Kesava Rao and top education department officials such as Yogita Rana and Balakista Reddy.

Revanth's orders embody a twin-priority agenda: building educational infrastructure in the form of residential schools and universities, and bridging the completion gap between the secondary and higher secondary segments. His government quite obviously means that by filling both design of the system and support to the student gaps, Telangana can bring near universal progression at Intermediate, reforming the academic trajectory with long-term socioeconomic consequence.