Parents told to choose for govt colleges: Kadiyam Srihari

​Hyderabad: Deputy Chief Minister Kadiyam Srihari told the parents not to get carried away with false notions that their wards would get quality education only in private corporate colleges.  Addressing the media here on Friday, after releasing the results of first and second year of Intermediate Public Examination, he asked the parents to wait until the Board of Intermediate Education announces the admission schedule to admit their wards in junior colleges.  

He asked not to subject their children to hardships under false impressions and said that the government and other colleges fared well over private colleges in the State in the final and secondyear Intermediate examinations.  As per the data released by the Board, except aided junior college where the pass percentage recorded only 55 per cent, the management wise pass percentage details are: government junior colleges- 70 per cent, model schools- 68, Telangana State Residential Junior Colleges -81 per cent, Social Welfare School-86 per cent, Tribal Welfare Schools-87 per cent and the private junior colleges-69 per cent, he said. 

That apart, in the first-year general intermediate course, Medchal and Ranga Reddy districts stood top with a pass percentage of 79 and 74 respectively. Medak has recorded lowest pass percentage of 45 per cent. 

In the vocational stream, Komaram Bheem and Wanaparthy stood top with 72 and 71 pass percentage respectively. Nagarkurnool and Jagityal came least with 46 per cent.  In the second-year intermediate general course stream, while Medchal and Komaram Bheem topped with a pass percentage of 80 and 77 per cent respectively, Mahabubabad with 40 per cent stood last. In vocational stream, Wanaparthy and Komaram Bheem stood in the top slots with 86 and 84 percentage respectively, while Siddipet recorded the lowest percentage of 55 per cent.