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  • Call to scrap 25% weightage to Inter marks in EAMCET.

    HYDERABAD: Private junior colleges strongly demand scrapping of the 25 per cent weightage for intermediate marks in Eamcet, a day after a report revealed that 75 per cent of answer scripts of IPE-2010 were evaluated incorrectly by examiners. Several junior college managements have decided to approach the state government demanding review of policy.

    Managements of Narayana and Sri Chaitanya groups of junior colleges said a memorandum in this regard would be submitted to technical education minister Damodar Raja Narasimha in a week’s time. Citing the stand taken by their counterparts in Karnataka on the similar issue, private colleges in the state have decided to challenge in court the 25 per cent weightage being given to inter marks in determining Eamcet ranks, if the state fails to do away with the rule.

    According to junior college representatives, the intermediate board does not have enough faculty members to evaluate lakhs of answer papers. “According to the board rules 30 answer scripts should be evaluated by each lecturer in a day. But in reality, they are given double the number of answer scripts. Some even finish their evaluation within three hours whereas they are supposed to complete it in six hours,” said K V Raghunath, vice chairman, Narayana Group of Institutions.

    Briefly responding to the issue, Damodar Raja Narasimha told media personnel that once he receives the representation, he will constitute a committee to review the situation and take a call on this. Eamcet authorities also supported scrapping of the 25 per cent weightage to inter marks.

    “It takes a long time to announce Eamcet ranks as we are currently forced to wait for intermediate public examination and advanced supplementary marks before declaring ranks,” said an Eamcet official. The Eamcet authorities had in a separate fact finding report, stated that the performance of rural students in Eamcet had not improved even after the introduction of 25 per cent weightage rule.

    Meanwhile, government college lecturers said that the state government should introduce the 25 per cent weightage only after strengthening the intermediate examination system. “There are times when guest lecturers are given the task of evaluating the answer scripts,” said P Madhusudan Reddy, secretary, Government Junior College Lecturer’s Association.

    Meanwhile, on Tuesday, fresh details of errors in inter evaluation surfaced with the officials making the internal report public. According to the report, errors in evaluation included those related to wrong totalling, wrong posting, lapse in awarding marks for correct answers, not evaluating answers properly and awarding either more or less marks. According to the report, the possible reasons for errors were “lack of facilities provided for evaluators and even influence of private parties through bribes”.

    Meanwhile, BIE officials said that the report did not reflect the actual facts and hence the correct picture about the evaluation would be released on Wednesday by the board officials. G Balaramaiah, BIE secretary, however, did not state why the contents of the report released by board staff were incorrect. Lecturers attending the evaluation training camps said that they were given instructions that a specific answer key and model answer paper would be given to them during spot evaluation to prevent errors.

    Source : TOI

  • Engineering colleges to launch stir from Feb 15.

    HYDERABAD: The engineering colleges managements’ association on Sunday kicked up a fresh row by threatening to launch an agitation soon if the state government fails to clear the fee reimbursement dues worth Rs 3,737 crore.

    Of the total Rs 4,037 crore fee reimbursement arrears, the state government had so far paid only Rs 300 crore, the managements representatives said. As per the Supreme Court’s directive, the managements were to pay the fee reimbursement money to students before January 29.

    The management representatives, who conduced a meeting in the city on Sunday, stated that they will go on agitation from February 15 and asked the state government to clear the dues before that time. The court had directed the state government to pay the money from its coffers before January 29 failing which the colleges can collect the fee from students.

    “Since we do not want to trouble the students, we are planning to go on agitation against the government. We gave the government seven months time to clear the dues. We are even planning to file a contempt petition against the government,” said K V K Rao, management representative, St Mary’s Group of Institutions.

    The managements might go on strike by declaring holidays to colleges. Even some students unions are expected to participate in the agitation. In the meeting, 10 engineering college unions (those from Telangana, Andhra and Rayalaseema regions) joined hands to form a consortium to fight for the fee reimbursement.

    The college representatives also demanded the state government to complete the admission process to engineering colleges before June 30 as a delay in admission is causing several students to take admission in other states. The colleges also opposed the move to grade them on the basis of availablity of facilities as it would allow some colleges to exact high fee from students in the long run.

    Managements also demanded the government to introduce uniform fee structure for merit and management quota seats. The management quota seats should be reduced to 5 per cent from the current 30 per cent of total seats, they demanded.

    In the meeting, representatives of 512 engineering colleges, 100 pharmacy colleges and 100 MBA colleges participated.

    Managements opposed the weightage given to intermediate marks in the Eamcet rankings. “Intermediate board has lost its credibility with several students applying for revaluation. Hence, the insistence for Intermediate marks weightage in Eamcet rankings is irrational,” management representatives argued. The managements also asked the state government to appeal against the 50 per cent mark rule introduced by All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE).

    According to the current rule students should get at least 50 per cent marks in intermediate group subjects to be considered for admissions in engineering colleges. “We demand the state government to oppose the AICTE move,” the representatives concluded.

    Source : TOI

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