Stop Seemandhra faculty from evaluating B Ed papers

 Regional sentiments flared up on Osmania University campus once again on Tuesday with students and faculty members holding a protest demanding that vicechancellor,T Tirupati Rao,prevent Seemandhra faculty members from evaluating B Ed answer scripts of students from Telangana region.T faculty members also boycotted the valuation and joined the striking students.The evaluation of B Ed answer scripts was eventually postponed indefinitely. The protesting T supporters also demanded police to drop all charges levelled against students who manhandled Seemandhra evaluators on August 28.The students also alleged that the police raided the hostels to detain several Joint Action Committee (JAC) members while the OU administration watched on.

While the protest staged by members of Telangana B Ed Lecturers Association and OU JAC went on from 12 noon to 2.30 pm,the crowd dispersed as the vice-chancellor assured them that a fact-finding committee has been set up to enquire into the alleged irregularities in B Ed valuation.Speaking to students,the vicechancellor said that the committee will enquire whether marks were awarded justly to all students.Evaluation will continue only after the committee submits its report to OU administration.The members of the committee will check whether lecturers from Seemandhra regions had tampered with the system by giving poor marks to students from Telangana.The university will study the findings of the committee and take necessary action, the vice-chancellor assured striking students and faculty.

Some of the faculty members also complained to the vice chancellor that they were being ill-treated by the Seemandhra faculty members during the evaluation.Meanwhile,on Tuesday,very few faculty members from regions other than Telangana had come to the OU campus for valuation fearing an attack on them. Evaluators from colleges under OU are selected randomly from a list of all faculty members who have at least five years of experience in teaching.And the evaluators do not get to know the identities of the students while correcting.There is no way by which anyone can tamper with the current system, Rao said. The VC has already submitted a preliminary report to the chancellor of university and governor,E S L Narasimhan.He said that if the evaluation gets postponed,the date of release of results will also have to be postponed.
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Withdraw cases against T students,PM urged


Eleven Telangana MPs met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in the Parliament House on Tuesday and submitted a memorandum urging him to see that the cases booked against students,who participated in the agitation for separate T state,were withdrawn. Among those who called on the PM were Lok Sabha MPs Madhu Yashki Goud,Manda Jagannatham,Ponnam Prabhakar,Gutha Sukhender Reddy,Balaram Naik and Sarve Satyanarayan,among others.

The delegation told the PM how police were harassing the students by slapping hundreds of cases against them in order to discourage them from participating in the T-movement. The MPs reminded the PM that home minister P Chidambaram had assured the Parliament that all the cases slapped against the students would be lifted.But so far it was not done, they said. Later,addressing the media,Manda Jagannatham said that the PM assured them that he would pursue the matter with state government and that he would talk to the chief minister on the subject.Sukhender Reddy said they had urged the Prime Minister to implement the December 9 declaration on the formation of Telangana state.

The solution to all problems in the region is the creation of Telangana state and that was the assurance given by the home minister, he said. Karimnagar MP Ponnam Prabhakar said they had requested the PM to take steps to revive the Ramagundam Fertiliser plant and stressed on the need for liberal assistance to the Pranahita-Chevella project in Telangana region.
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KCR plea to postpone Group-1 exams


TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao on Tuesday demanded the government to stop AP Public Service Commission (APPSC) from conducting Group-1 exams till the issue of job quota for Telangana is sorted out. APPSC at a meeting on Tuesday decided to conduct the Group-1 preliminary exam as per schedule on September 5. The Telangana students JAC has been demanding separate quota for Telangana region in Group-1 services.

Addressing some TDP and PRP activists from Nalgonda district,who joined the party,KCR said that the government did not concede to the demand for quota and was planning to conduct exams under the supervision of present APPSC chairman Y Venkatarami Reddy,who was facing corruption charges.
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