Thursday, 1 January 2015

Eamcet Widening Gap

Mohammed Younus / hyderabad : Telangana State Higher Education Council (TSCHE) on Wednesday staked claim on conducting Eamcet along with other CETs in the State and asserted that it was well within its right to conduct Eamcet examination. The final dates of Eamcet and other CETs would be decided at a meeting scheduled for next week. TSCHE chairman T Papi Reddy said on Wednesday that they would finalise dates and other things in a week’s time. 

A meeting with vice-chancellors of all the universities and executive committee of the council has been scheduled for January 3. Along with dates the conveners of the CETs would also be decided during the meeting

Eamcet

He said, “A meeting with vice-chancellors of all the universities and executive committee of the council has been scheduled for January 3. Along with dates the conveners of the CETs would also be decided during the meeting.” He said that as per the Section 75 of the AP Reorganisation Act, institutions located in the Telangana have a right to take their own decisions and if needed can offer help to the mother State. Reddy said that in the past universities of Telangana had conducted several CETs and this time too it would not be a difficulty to conduct some more tests. 

Conventionally, ICET is conducted by Kakatiya University, PGECET by Osmania University, and Eamcet by JNTUH. He flayed the statements of AP HRD Minister Ganta Srinivas in which he termed the TSCHE an invalid entity. Reddy said that a legitimate Telangana government has created the council with constitutional rights. On the other hand, it appears that after Intermediate examinations, the conduct of various common entrance tests especially Eamcet is widening the gap between Andhra Pradesh and Telangana governments and leading to create latest rifts.

This is evident from the series of events that had happened over a week now and latest is the notice of vacation given to the Andhra Pradesh Higher Education Council (APSCHE) by the Jawaharlal Nehru Architecture and Fine Arts University from its building located at Masab Tank. The university authorities have also put the To-Let board locking up the whole building area which was under use of AP higher education council. This has come as a shock to APSCHE which had recently released the dates for various CETs to be conducted by different universities.

The dates were announced even as the Telangana State Higher Education Council (TSCHE) was trying to arrive at a date. TSCHE officials, however, denied having any role in the issuance of notice to the APSCHE for vacating the building. Meanwhile, AP Human Resources Development Minister Ganta Srinivasa Rao said they would move the Centre on the EAMCET issue if Telangana government fails to abide by Governor ESL Narasimhan’s advice to conduct the test individually one after the other. 

Addressing the media, the AP minister expressed concern over the Telangana government violating AP Reorganisation Act. He took exception to the Telangana government, which remained adamant on FAST, Inter and nativity issues and dishonoring them. “We might move either the court or approach the Centre if necessary,” he maintained. He remarked that the Telangana State Higher Education Council is not recognised and has no sanctity to conduct any such tests, he said. He also said the AP government was ready to conduct the EAMCET for 2015 and offer TS government to conduct the same in 2016 as per the advice of the Governor.

Ganta also found fault with Telangana Education Minister G Jagadish Reddy for threatening APSCHE Chairman Venugopal Reddy, who was seeking protection to his life, he lamented. He further alleged that Jagadish Reddy used filthy words and made offensive remarks besides creating a hue and cry in Venugopal Reddy’s chambers. “We tried in vain a number of times to contact Telangana Education department. Despite repeated efforts the TS government ignored them and thus the AP government came up with EAMCET date,” he maintained.

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