Andhra Deputy CM criticize high school charges at International School of Hyderabad.

As a personal decision, Andhra Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Pawan Kalyan has admitted his eight-year-old son, Mark Shankar Pawanovich, to the International School of Hyderabad (ISH), which is located within the ICRISAT campus at Patancheru. After a traumatic experience a few months ago when Mark developed burn injuries in a tragic fire accident while studying in Singapore, the choice has been made. In fear of his recuperation and well-being, Kalyan returned his son to India and opted to prioritize Mark's medical attention and emotional health by keeping him near his parents.

The politician-actor himself made a personal visit to the ICRISAT campus this Friday. On this visit, he conducted officialities pertaining to the admission of his son, toured the school infrastructure, and also stopped by for a while over at the research centre of the institute.

The news portal was informed by family sources that keeping Mark close to home was decided with the utmost care, especially given the child's recent ordeal. For Kalyan, who has political duties alongside domestic life, providing his son with a safe and healthy home was of the topmost priority. The International School of Hyderabad with its high standard of schooling and cosmopolitan background appeared just about ideal.

International School of Hyderabad is an established day school that provides English-medium education to children aged between 4 and 18 years. The school has a student roll of over 400 students from over 22 nations. The school prides itself on being an education melting pot. The school is primarily for international students but reserves some space for Indians as well. Interestingly, ISH has over one-third of its teaching staff comprised of instructors from beyond India and 12 nationalities—something that distinguishes it among Hyderabad international schools.

It was founded in 1981 under the patronage of the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) and is a not-for-profit body in the institutional form controlled by diplomatic missions. It is governed by the Head of ICRISAT and administered by a board working closely with the school Head of School to maintain effective management and academic success.

The school implemented the IGCSE Cambridge curriculum for the first time in 2003 and graduated its first International Baccalaureate (IB) diplomas in 2007. Notably, ISH is the first Indian school to have been internationally accredited by the Council of International Schools (CIS) and remains accredited by CIS and the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC). It was also the first institution to introduce the IB diploma in what is now Telangana.

With keen focus on scholarship intensity and readiness for university, ISH has the majority of its graduates positioned in top universities, with specific emphasis in North America.

But all of this education does not come cheap. On the school's website, although the registration fee is listed at Rs 83,000, the joining fee stands at a whopping Rs 8.3 lakh, and annual charges will range between Rs 8.7 lakh to Rs 13.6 lakh based on class level.

Both off and on screen, Pawan Kalyan is as busy as possible making films. He is engaged in two films at present—They Call Him OG, a hard-hitting gangster thriller, and Ustad Bhagat Singh, a feather in his cap  once again as a politician, actor, and doting father.