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  • Don’t shift practicals: Colleges

    Don’t shift practicals: Colleges .

    The state government is facing immense pressure from junior colleges that do not want the state to implement the “jumbling system” for the Intermediate practical exams that will be held in February 2011.

    The government has already made two attempts to implement jumbling in the practical exams in order to check malpractice, but it reversed its decision owing to pressure from the colleges.

    In the jumbling system, candidates of a particular college appear for the exams
    in another college. The jumbling system is used for the theory examinations and it has helped curtail malpractice to a large extent.

    There were complaints that the managements of certain colleges were influencing the officials to get better scores for their students. These complaints gained credence when over 90 per cent of students in certain corporate colleges secured 100 per cent marks in the practical exams every year.

    The managements of the colleges have been arguing that jumbling in practical exams was “impractical” as many government colleges and even private colleges located in rural areas do not have the adequate laboratory facilities. The managements said that the performance of their students could be affected if they had to give an exam in an under equipped college.

    Meanwhile, the minister for secondary education, Mr
    D. Manikya Vara Prasada Rao, said that, “The colleges have submitted a representation to the government to reconsider its decision. The colleges said the government should first ensure that all colleges can provide the adequate laboratory facilities and only then should the government implement jumbling.” The minister refuted the colleges’ claim and said that the officials have identified colleges with good laboratory facilities. “They have already informed the colleges about the facilities and the equipment that is required for the exams,” said Mr Rao.

    Source:     DC

  • DIFFICULT NORMS Fee waiver eludes 3.4 lakh students.

    DIFFICULT NORMS Fee waiver eludes 3.4 lakh students.


    Applications of many students are still pending at the mandal revenue offices as they are still waiting for their income certificates.

    Thanks to the newly-introduced stringent norms, nearly 3.4 lakh students who availed of the fee reimbursement scheme last year were not able to do so this time around. Out of 14 lakh students, only 11.6 lakh managed to submit their online applications before the deadline expired on November 20.

    This will, in all probabilities, prove disastrous for the hapless students from socially and economically weaker sections.

    The government had estimated that it needed `5,000 crore to fund the scheme this year. Though it had allocated `2,000 crore in the budget, most of the amount was used to pay the arrears of the last two years.

    The government thus introduced stringent norms to bring down the number of beneficiaries. Its first step was to cancel the income certificates submitted by students till September and ask them to submit them in a new format in October.

    The government also made it clear that only income certificates issued after October 10 would be valid. With this, nearly 30 lakh students had to secure fresh income certificates within a month and revenue offices failed to issue the certificates within the stipulated time. So, applications of many students are still pending at the mandal revenue offices across the state.

    Added to this, there was confusion about getting the income certificates attested though later it was scraped. It was made mandatory for all colleges to register their names online to avail of the fee reimbursement scheme. Nearly 500 state colleges failed to register citing lack of computers and Internet connections.
    Some state colleges also stayed away from registration citing lack of budget to get the work outsourced.
    Thus from 11,300 colleges that had registered for fee reimbursement last year, the number has come down to less than 10,800 this year.

    Despite all this, the government has made it clear that it has no intention to extend the deadline again. “There is no plan to extend the deadline again ,” said Mr Raymond Peter, principal secretary, Social Welfare department.

    Meanwhile the online application process for freshers who took admissions this year has finally been started. They will be given time till December 12 to submit their applications.

    Source: DC

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