Governor fails to bring consensus on inter exams
HYDERABAD: Governor ESL Narasimhan's efforts to broker peace between the warring Andhra Pradesh and Telangana governments over holding Intermediate exams in both the States in an amicable manner are learnt to have failed for now.
Chief Secretaries of AP and TS, IYR Krishna Rao and Rajiv Sharma respectively stuck to their guns on this issue during their hour-long meeting with the Governor at Raj Bhavan on Wednesday evening.
If Rao reiterated the AP government's stance of holding common exams, Sharma once again presented the TS government's argument of holding separate exams in the new State, sources said.
Following this, Narasimhan, who had heard the views of the two governments, reportedly asked both the Chief Secretaries to discuss with their respective Chief Ministers so as to arrive at an amicable solution on the issue, which is giving jitters to lakhs of Intermediate students in both the States.
Sources said during the meeting, which was aimed at bringing a consensus between the two States over conduct of Intermediate exams, the Governor asked the duo to get back to him with a solution in two days.
It is learnt that both the Chief Secretaries reiterated their argument on conduct of Intermediate exams what they had presented before Union Home Secretary Anil Goswami during their recent meeting with him in Delhi before the Governor on Wednesday also.
Sources said the Governor is likely to hold another meeting with Education Ministers of both the States very soon to find an amicable solution on the raging issue.
Earlier in the day, the Governor, soon after his return to Hyderabad from Delhi by completing a three-day tour in the national capital, which was aimed at resolving ongoing disputes between the two States, summoned both the Chief Secretaries along with officials of Intermediate Board.
Meanwhile, AP HRD Minister Ganta Srinivasa Rao said the AP government would make all possible efforts, including approaching the court, to conduct common exams for intermediate students of both the States.
'The Telangana government is not cooperating with our efforts to save the academic schedule of students in both States,' he lambasted.
News Posted: 4 December, 2014
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