Mohammed Younus/ Hyderabad: After announcing separate schedule for Intermediate public examinations in Telangana, the State government is now pitching for separate EAMCET (common entrance test for admissions into engineering and medicine courses) for the State. Sources in the Telangana State Council for Higher Education (TSCHE) revealed that a decision on this issue would be taken in a day or two after holding discussions with Education Minister G Jagadishwar Reddy.
Telangana government’s argument for separate EAMCET is that if it is conducted in common, most of the top ranks would be taken away by the AP students as they have better educational infrastructure and good number of EAMCET coaching institutions. Moreover, the Telangana students are not competitive as AP students due to lack of best faculty, educational infrastructure and due to their rural back ground. In this case, the morale of the TS students would be dampened further besides not getting the ranks, the TS educationists argued.
The TS Education Minister and educationists have been advocating for the separate EAMCET or at least separate ranking so that the competition would be confined to TS only. In fact the state government was contemplating on conducting separate test ever since the state was divided. TSCHE chairman T Papi Reddy said that a decision on this issue would be announced after discussing the modalities with education minister along with experts. He said that their decision to conduct separate test was justified on many grounds. While the talks between AP and TS education ministers are inconclusive, both the governments announced their time table schedule for intermediate public examination a day ago.
However, AP is insisting on a common test as it was included in the 10th schedule of Andhra Pradesh Reorganization Act 2013. After several meetings at secretary level both the state governments announced their own time table for conducting the intermediate public examinations. Educationist P Madhusudan Reddy said that according to the Section 94 of the AP Reorganization Act, the common admission system should remain same in which students from AP could also get admission into TS institutions under 15 per cent non-local quota. If the TS government decides to conduct the EAMCET separately, it would not harm the spirit of the reorganization act. In case of students from AP wanted to take admission in the institutions of TS they have to appear for TS’s EAMCET apart from their own test.
Telangana government’s argument for separate EAMCET is that if it is conducted in common, most of the top ranks would be taken away by the AP students as they have better educational infrastructure and good number of EAMCET coaching institutions. Moreover, the Telangana students are not competitive as AP students due to lack of best faculty, educational infrastructure and due to their rural back ground. In this case, the morale of the TS students would be dampened further besides not getting the ranks, the TS educationists argued.
The TS Education Minister and educationists have been advocating for the separate EAMCET or at least separate ranking so that the competition would be confined to TS only. In fact the state government was contemplating on conducting separate test ever since the state was divided. TSCHE chairman T Papi Reddy said that a decision on this issue would be announced after discussing the modalities with education minister along with experts. He said that their decision to conduct separate test was justified on many grounds. While the talks between AP and TS education ministers are inconclusive, both the governments announced their time table schedule for intermediate public examination a day ago.However, AP is insisting on a common test as it was included in the 10th schedule of Andhra Pradesh Reorganization Act 2013. After several meetings at secretary level both the state governments announced their own time table for conducting the intermediate public examinations. Educationist P Madhusudan Reddy said that according to the Section 94 of the AP Reorganization Act, the common admission system should remain same in which students from AP could also get admission into TS institutions under 15 per cent non-local quota. If the TS government decides to conduct the EAMCET separately, it would not harm the spirit of the reorganization act. In case of students from AP wanted to take admission in the institutions of TS they have to appear for TS’s EAMCET apart from their own test.
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