Hyderabad, April 12 -- The Telangana government is considering the introduction of pre-primary courses on par with private schools, including nursery, lower kindergarten and upper kindergarten, in all state-run schools from the academic year 2025-26, people familiar with the matter said.

Chief minister A Revanth Reddy mooted this proposal, while inaugurating the Young India Police School, at Manchirevula in Hyderabad on Thursday. At present, the state government schools have the classes from Class 1 to 10 and if the chief minister has his way, they would have nursery, LKG and UKG classes as well, before the commencement of the primary education.

A senior official of the school education department said the proposal was recommended recen...