CM Revanth Reddy inaugurates Govt Junior College in Bomraspet
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On Diwali 2026, Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy chose a village classroom to mark the festival — inaugurating the newly constructed Government Junior College building at Bomraspet in Vikarabad district's Kodangal assembly constituency, bringing higher-secondary infrastructure directly to a rural community that long lacked it.
A new building for Bomraspet's students
After formally opening the college, CM Revanth Reddy walked through the classrooms and staff rooms himself — a hands-on inspection that the Chief Minister's Office of Telangana highlighted as a signal of personal oversight over the project's readiness. The college falls within Kodangal constituency, a seat that carries particular political significance as Revanth Reddy's own home turf before he rose to lead the state.
Who was in the room
The inauguration drew a cross-section of Telangana's ruling establishment. Legislative Assembly Speaker Gaddam Prasad Kumar, ministers Damodar Rajanarsimha, Tummala Nageswara Rao, and Vakiti Srihari, along with MP Vem Narender Reddy and government adviser P. Sudarshan Reddy attended, alongside local elected representatives, village residents, and students. The collective presence underscored that this was framed as a constituency-level development milestone, not a routine ribbon-cutting.
Rural college expansion in Telangana's education push
Since Telangana's formation in 2014, successive governments have prioritised expanding government junior college infrastructure in rural mandals to reduce the distance students must travel for Class 11–12 education. The Congress government that came to power in December 2023 under Revanth Reddy has continued this trajectory. Bomraspet's new building fits squarely into that longer arc — giving village students access to government-funded higher-secondary education without leaving their taluk.
Holding the event on Diwali was deliberate: state governments across India regularly schedule project launches on festival days to maximise community participation and visibility, and Sunday's gathering of students and villagers at Bomraspet reflected exactly that logic.
For the students of Kodangal's hinterland, the new walls, classrooms, and staff rooms are more than infrastructure — they are the difference between continuing education locally and dropping out of it entirely.