Mohammed Younus/ Hyderabad: Telangana Higher Education Council has called a meeting next week to decide the modalities for conducting the common entrance tests for the state on its own, official sources said on Friday.
The meeting was scheduled to be held early this month, but got postponed for due to continuous holidays. As the dates of notification for the conduct of various CETs nearing, the pressure over the state government especially on the State Higher Education Council is building up. The meeting would discuss the conduct of ICET, ECET, PGECET, EdCET, EAMCET and Law CET and may possibly take a decision to conduct these tests separately for the state of Telangana. According to TSCHE chairman T Papi Reddy, next week all the concerned officials including secretary of higher education along with education minister would sit to discuss the issue with council members.
About Eamcet, he said that the stance of Telangana government was clear and is in accordance with the Reorganization Act. “The section 75 of the Reorganization Act clearly says that successor state of Telangana has all rights to conduct the examination on its own and our stand is the same,” he added. He said that though the AP government was continuously making statements on conducting the Eamcet commonly for both the states, nothing had happened in this regard. He said that the Telangana government has decided to conduct all the examinations under its jurisdiction without causing difficulty to the students.
The meeting was scheduled to be held early this month, but got postponed for due to continuous holidays. As the dates of notification for the conduct of various CETs nearing, the pressure over the state government especially on the State Higher Education Council is building up. The meeting would discuss the conduct of ICET, ECET, PGECET, EdCET, EAMCET and Law CET and may possibly take a decision to conduct these tests separately for the state of Telangana. According to TSCHE chairman T Papi Reddy, next week all the concerned officials including secretary of higher education along with education minister would sit to discuss the issue with council members.
About Eamcet, he said that the stance of Telangana government was clear and is in accordance with the Reorganization Act. “The section 75 of the Reorganization Act clearly says that successor state of Telangana has all rights to conduct the examination on its own and our stand is the same,” he added. He said that though the AP government was continuously making statements on conducting the Eamcet commonly for both the states, nothing had happened in this regard. He said that the Telangana government has decided to conduct all the examinations under its jurisdiction without causing difficulty to the students.
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