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  • Tri-Valley students face deportation to India.

    HYDERABAD: “They are going to deport us all within a few hours,” Tri-Valley University student Hari (name changed on request) told Express on the telephone on Friday, the horror in his voice unmistakable.

    With the university at Pleasanton in the suburbs of San Francisco declared a sham university for immigration fraud, hundreds of Indian students, many from Andhra Pradesh, braced up to be put on the plane back home in the next 48 hours.

    Early on Friday, Eastern Standard Time, frantic students rushed to immigration lawyers, Indian-American associations, US consulate officials, anybody at all who might offer help or advice. When Express caught up with him very early in the day, Hari was taking the bus to a lawyer.

    “They are torturing us, putting us in jail. My friend was taken away by the police 10 days back but hasn’t returned,’’ he said. The freind was among 20 Indian students detained and let off Friday. But they were put under electronic surveillance.

    Some 95 per cent of the 1,555 students of Tri-Valley are from India, predominantly from AP. The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has charged its founder Susan Xiao-Ping Su with immigration fraud and misrepresentation. Panic-stricken Indian students met the US consul general in San Francisco, Sushmita Gongulee Thomas, early Friday but found little immediate help.

    “We are trying to meet high-level officials here but so far no Indian officials have come forward to help us. I cannot tell you what our condition is. Please do not mention my name because my parents do not know what I am facing here. It is very difficult to come back home like this, we have taken so much of money on loan for my education,” said Hari. The students are writing petitions to every agency they can think of.

    They submitted one to the US Department of Homeland Security. It makes doleful reading: “We respectfully plead with you not to penalise us or our families and bring shame to our entire family and the village/towns we come from, by deporting us from the US and causing us loss of name, reputation, money, resulting in devastation to us and our families and crashing all of our dreams.”

    Telugu Association of North Americal (TANA) president Jayaram Komati said he has asked two Indian immigration lawyers, Kalpana V Peddibhotla and Ashwini Bhakre “to offer free preliminary consultation and discounted representation fee’’ to the students. But he said each affected person has to seek legal advice pertaining to his or her unique situation.

    Source : Indian Express

  • Private college reps in Inter exam monitory bodies.

    HYDERABAD: District examination committees set up as monitory bodies for the conduct of Intermediate Public Examination (IPE) are now allegedly having illegal tie ups with private junior colleges. In four districts in Telangana __ Karimanagar, Ranga Reddy, Adilabad and Mahbubnagar __ several committee members are now alleged to be representatives of private colleges.

    Just one week before the commencement of IPE’s practical examinations, the committees might get dismantled for their alleged tie-up with private parties, Board of Intermediate Education (BIE) officials said.

    Junior college lecturers have submitted petitions to BIE officials complaining that not only were the committees constituted arbitrarily but also junior teachers were recruited as against senior ones. Most of the teachers chosen had tie ups with private junior colleges, lecturers’ associations alleged.

    While some of the lecturers selected in the DECs had earlier been rendering their teaching services in private junior colleges some are even known for their private tuitions.

    Sources said that while in Ranga Reddy district examination committee, a junior lecturer was selected even when there are over 14 others who are senior to him. In Karimnagar, the seniority of 10 senior lecturers were superseded by one junior lecture who was favoured by private managements.Interestingly, there are around 15 such cases in the districts.

    According to government college representatives who have taken up the matter with G Balaramaiah, secretary, Board of Intermediate Education, some of those selected do not have a clean track record of service.

    DEC is responsible for the conduct of intermediate public examinations in each of the districts. It deputes chief examiners for valuation of answer scripts and even constitutes the flying and sitting squads which are in charge of checking malpractice during the examinations.

    A similar instance of seniority violation in 2007 had led to an intermediate question paper leak in Ranga Reddy district.

    “The board is doing the same mistake all over again and is allowing people without clean track records to conduct public examinations,” said an office bearer of the Telangana Government Junior Lecturers’ association. As the DEC is also in charge of conducting theory examinations which will be held in March, the lecturers have asked the BIE to reconstitute the committees as soon as possible.

    When asked about the issue, G Balaramaiah said the matter was brought to his notice three days ago. “The seniority matter in Ranga Reddy is settled. If there are more districts with such a problem, we will reconstitute the committees. But there is no chance of any rigging or other such malpractice to take place,” said Balaramaiah.

    Source : TOI

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