Hyderabad, July 20 (UNI) Union Minister of Tourism, Culture and DoNER G Kishan Reddy thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for sanctioning 20 additional Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalayas (KGBVs) to Telangana in 2022-23.

In a statement here on Wednesday, Reddy said, the KGBVs are set up across the country with the aim to promote the education of girls belonging to disadvantaged groups such as SC, ST, OBC, Minority and Below Poverty Line (BPL) in Educationally Backward Blocks (EBBs). The set-up of these institutions is done under the Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan, a centrally sponsored scheme of the Department of School Education & Literacy, Ministry of Education, As on July 13, a total of 4,982 KGBVs are operational in the country.