Hyderabad, May 29 -- Telangana chief minister A Revanth Reddy on Wednesday called upon the students of underprivileged sections to focus on attaining higher education rather than compromising for the freebies and subsidies granted by the governments.

Speaking at a meeting after felicitating students from Telangana social welfare residential schools and junior colleges who had achieved top ranks in class 10 and intermediate examinations and cracked JEE and NEET to get into engineering and medical courses, Revanth Reddy said students would get self-confidence only through education.

"The future of the country lies in the classrooms. It is not the caste, but the education that would transform the lives of the underprivileged sections. Our ...