Only one ChaiNa batch to pass next year, says Sushma

Hyderabad: A battle between two major corporate colleges groups, Narayana and Sri Chaitanya, over which group had produced the most Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) high rankers has led to an abrupt abolition of their joint-venture project, ChaiNa, with both groups threatening legal action against each other.

Four of the top five national rankers are from Sri Chaitanya, though Narayana is claiming the rank holders from even medical stream are their students despite the fact that the collaboration is over, they said.

Narayana group directors Dr Sindhura and Ms Shravani have termed Sri Chaitanya’s accusations as “silly and baseless”. 

Dr Sidhura said the Narayana group has undisputed right to publicise the results as the ChaiNa batch is run according to academic schedules based on Narayana’s famous Co-Spark programmes. She pointed out that even before the formation of ChaiNa, Narayana students were top rankers in national-level competitive exams.

Sri Chaintanya group founder B.S. Rao has also alleged that the Narayana group is misleading parents, asking them to admit their wards into its institutions and promising to send them to ChaiNa. “We want to make it clear that there will no combined batch of both institutions,” he said.

“There is only one combined batch that will pass next year and from this year, we are going our separate ways,” Sushma said. 

“Holders of ranks 1,2,4,5 and 7 are from our institutes. They studied here or went through us to the Sharvaani batch. But Narayana is claiming these students as its own.”