No Eamcet from next year?
Hyderabad: It looks like there may not be any Eamcet from next year. The Kiran Kumar Reddy government is mulling the option of doing away with the Eamcet apart from allowing fee reimbursement for spot admissions this year.
It is learnt that an announcement to this effect is in the offing and consultations are on with the Deputy Chief Minster Damodar Raja Narsimha over the matter. For the first time the AP technical colleges management association has sincerely appealed to the Chief Minister to do away with the Eamcet.
This is a welcome sign as the Centre is also planning to conduct a common entrance test for the students at the national level for both for the Medical and Engineering streams. The state government is yet to give its consent on the matter.
Because of the exams parents and the children are losing almost six months of their time. By this decision the burden on the parents and their wards can be reduced to a great extent. In the name of entrance tests and coaching the students face hardship at colleges and coaching centres.
K Chiranjeevi Reddy, president of the technical colleges association suggested to the CM at the state secretariat that it would be wise to allocate Engineering seats based on the intermediate aggregate.
Some of the managements also complained that there were discrepancies in the counselling sessions and that the officials were hand-in-glove with some managements for filling seats.
Eamcet camp officer Raghunath openly confirmed that the options marked were manipulated. Some arrests were also made by the police.
Despite there being 3,20,000 seats in the state, only about 1 lakh were filled this academic year. The remaining chose to migrate to neighbourhood states to avoid the ongoing agitations.
The managements urged the CM to see to it that only 300 seats are given under the fee reimbursement category so that the rest come for the managements and other quotas by which the rural colleges can survive.
Speaking to media Chiranjeevi agreed that only corporate colleges benefited by the existing Eamcet. He also reminded that the earlier YSR government was against Eamcet, but some middlemen had prevailed upon them he pointed out.
There is every need to encourage the students to study well in the Inter so that the percentage of marks will go up.
News Posted: 24 September, 2011
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