Vasavi College Students Barred From Inter Exams

Is there something more than meets the eye in the Telangana Board Of Intermediate Education not recognizing a junior college in the city as a result of which 258 first year students of the college were denied hall tickets and thus barred from writing the examinations, which commenced throughout the State in 1,291 centres today?

As many as 258 first year students of Vasavi Junior College, situated in Vanasthalipuram, were denied hall tickets for writing the Intermediate exams that commenced today as the college was not recognized by the Telangana Intermediate Board.

Thus the first year students of the college have perhaps lost one academic year for not writing the exams today, though the Board authorities assured the agitating parents and students that they could appear for the advanced supplementary exams before the commencement of admissions for the next academic year.

Meanwhile the fate of the second year students of the same college is steeped in suspense as their exams will commence tomorrow.

The worried students and their parents are keeping their fingers crossed hoping that there won't be a similar obstacle for the former to writing the exams tomorrow.

When the first year students and their parents agitated before the college for denying them permission to write the exams today, Deputy Chief Minister Kadiam Srihari, who is also the Minister for Education, expressed shock over the issue and directed the officials to take stern action against the management of Vasavi Junior College. Accordingly, a case was filed against the college management for allegedly cheating the students.

However, the management of the college, in a shocking revelation, alleged that the concerned officials of the BIE had demanded Rs 5 lakhs for according recognition, and when the college failed to pay the amount, recognition was denied.

Whether the allegations of the management of the college are true or not, it is hard to understand how the authorities concerned remained silent and allowed the college to function till the commencement of the exams and put the academic careers of hundreds of students in jeopardy.

It only goes to prove that all is not well in the functioning of the Board of Intermediate Education, and a thorough investigation is needed to plug the loopholes and prevent hapless students from being taken for a ride.