Hyderabad: The Telangana state government on Saturday postponed Eamcet scheduled on May 2, and Teacher Eligibility Test on May 1 respectively.
The decision was taken following the strike announced by Private Colleges JAC to protest the raids and inspections by police, vigilance departments ordered by state government to verify faculty and infrastructure facilites in colleges. The JAC has decided to boycott both these exams and not to allow centres in their premises, forcing the government to postpone the exams.
“We have decided to postpone TET and Eamcet. Fresh dates will be announced soon. We are planning to conduct both these exams before May 20,” said Deputy CM Kadiam Srihari, who holds the education portfolio. Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao took a serious view of the strike by private colleges.
Mr Rao directed officials to go ahead with inspections and asked them to make arrangements to hold exams only in governement schools, colleges and universities later and not to compromise with private colleges for the sake of exam centres.
Mr Rao made it clear that the inspections were not to harass private colleges but to weed out bogus colleges which are running without qualified faculty and basic infrastructure facilities but siphoning off crores of rupees of public money under fee reimbursement scheme.
