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Telangana to scrap Eamcet for engg ?
The Telangana government is examining a proposal to scrap Eamcet for filling seats in the engineering stream of colleges in the State.
Hyderabad: The Telangana government is examining a proposal to scrap Eamcet for filling seats in the engineering stream of colleges in the State.
Deputy Chief Minister Kadiam Srihari indicated this while talking to media persons on the sidelines of a workshop for district education officers and regional joint directors at the Sarva Shiksha Abiyan office here on Wednesday.
The Deputy Chief Minister said that the proposal was under consideration as there were more seats in engineering colleges than the number of candidates taking Eamcet for the engineering stream.
Should the government decide to do away with Eamcet, then the criteria for admission to engineering colleges would be based largely on the marks scored by students in the Intermediate Public Examination.
Academicians have differing views on this move of the government. While some say that this move would break the back of coaching institutions in Telangana; others opine that even if Eamcet is scrapped and Intermediate marks are reckoned for engineering seats, tutorial colleges for Intermediate would mushroom.
There are others who say that the government is only testing the waters. If public reaction is not favourable, the government may desist from taking such a decision.
The idea was first mooted more than a decade ago. Sources in the education department said that in 2005, in the undivided Andhra Pradesh, a committee headed by then Vice Chancellor of JNTU Daya Ratnam was constituted to look into the issue.
he committee had recommended that Eamcet be abolished gradually by 2011. The committee had proposed that the need for Eamcet be brought down by 25 per cent by 2008 and 50 per cent by 2009, before being scrapped altogether.
However, the report and the panel’s recommendations were not considered by the erstwhile government in combined Andhra Pradesh and the move was put in cold storage.
The Telangana government seems to have revisited the proposal as the number of seats available in the 170 engineering colleges affiliated to JNTU is more than the number qualifying in Eamcet, sources pointed out.
