Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) Treasurer Gudur Narayana Reddy has accused the TRS Government once again. TRS is playing with the lives of students by not conducting public examinations in a transparent manner. Gudur Narayana Reddy, in a media statement on Monday, said.

Telangana Government’s Confession

State Government’s decision to form a three-member committee to look into the discrepancies and goof up in intermediate results was nothing but a confession of its mistake. He said thousands of students have complained that they were either marked ‘absent’ or ‘fail’ in the provisional mark-sheets although they cleared the exam. Similarly, there were many other errors in the mark-sheets of thousands of students.

Having denied of any goof up initially, the State Government has finally admitted that they committed mistakes. The discrepancies led the government to constitute a three-member team. This will be headed by Telangana State Technology Services (TSTS) Managing Director Venkateshwar Rao to probe into the matter.

Sack Ministers Urged

“Since the State Government has admitted their mistakes, it should immediately sack the Ministers. First to get sacked is Education Minister Jagadish Reddy and next one is TSBIE Secretary, Dr. A. Ashok,” it was asked.

The Congress leader also accused TRS Working President K. Tarakarama Rao of defending another scam in education department. “Instead of recommending stern action against those responsible for goof up in intermediate results, KTR is ridiculously advising the students to apply for ‘recounting or re-verification’. Any student who is not satisfied with the results will do that naturally. KTR should explain as to why such errors have occurred at the first place,” he said.

Playing with Students’ Career

Gudur Narayana Reddy alleged that TRS Govt has been playing with the lives of lakhs of students. He also alleged that the job of Data and Result Processing was assigned to a private company Globarena Technologies reportedly at the instance of KTR. He said Globarena Technologies was the same company which failed in ‘Examination Automation Work’ of JNTU – Kakinada in 2015 causing hardship to lakhs of students. Despite their bad track record and lack of experience, the same company was assigned the job of valuation of intermediate results, he said.

State Government Should Take Responsibility

Pointing out that on April 16, State Government has admitted their mistakes in the Mathematics Question Paper of 10th Class. From there on they also announced that six marks would be given to students who attempted those erroneous questions. “State Government cannot run away from their responsibility by just adding marks. It should take action against those responsible for errors in the question paper,” he demanded.

Well Planned Scam?

Calling TRS Government insensitive and inefficient, Gudur Narayana Reddy said that the goof up in intermediate results was not a small mistake. It was a well-planned scam aimed at benefiting a few private colleges. Therefore, a fair report could not be expected from the three-member committee constituted by the government.

However, he said that the Congress party would wait for three days till the committee submits their report and decide future course of action. He pointed out that the CID investigation into the EAMCET paper leakage case three years ago was yet to be completed. Entire case was hushed up and the real culprits were let off. He said that the Congress party would not allow the intermediate results case to be treated in a similar manner.

Khalid M Raza