FirstRanker.com

Tag: students

  • Fraud counselling on the rise in AP.

    The spate of fraud cases in the Eamcet web-based counselling has been giving the jitters to officials, students and parents. Questions are being asked about the security of the new system. Officials of the AP State Council of Higher Educ-ation (APSCHE) have denied that there has been any hacking into the system. They maintain that the fraudsters have only exploited the innocence of some students by getting them to reveal their log-in ID and password.

    Brokers and college managements have been conniving to entrap rural students, who are not well-versed with computers and disclose their passwords to Internet centre operators who then manipulate the options given by the students to ensure that seats are filled in the colleges of their (the broker’s) choice. The brokers collect a commission from the managements for steering students in their direction. “We have conducted awareness programmes in all the districts for students on the web-based counselling. We have repeatedly informed them not to disclose their passwords to anyone. Despite this, some students are doing this out of innocence or for whatever reasons,” said Prof Jayaprakash Rao, chairman, APSCHE.

    Source : DC

  • JNTU-K staff charge VC with fund misappropriation.

    KAKINADA: Some professors and non-teaching staff have charged vice-chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Kakinada Prof Allam Appa Rao with misappropriation of funds.

    While the non-teaching staff submitted a written petition to governor E S L Narasimhan, the professors approached him urging not to give Prof Appa Rao another term, as he completed his present one recently.

    Sources said while Prof Appa Rao is lobbying hard to become Andhra University VC, the government is likely to retain him as VC of JNTU-K for another term.

    The non-teaching staff association, in their plea, demanded appointment of a committee to probe the irregularities committed during Prof Appa Rao’s tenure. They alleged that the VC swindled university funds and that there were several discrepancies in the audit.

    They said he spent more than Rs 20 lakh in the name of planting trees and another Rs 10 lakh in the name of ‘Nakshatravanam’ project. They alleged that the cost of installing solar lights was shown at Rs 14.2 lakh, when in reality it was only Rs 3-4 lakh.

    The professors said JNTU-K should have got Rs 52 crore towards affiliation fee from self-financing colleges. “Most of them have not paid the fee for more than a year, but no inquiry has been ordered,” one of them said. The examination system was also totally messed up, they added.

    Denying the charges, university registrar V Ravinder said that they were made only to defame Prof Rao. “The university has seen a lot of development during Rao’s term as VC. Allegations are baseless,” he added.

    Source : TOI

error: Content is protected !!