Students face Eamcet chaos

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Hyderabad: Over 75,000 students from Seemandhra might be forced to travel to Telangana to attend the Eamcet Engineering counselling scheduled to begin from Monday. While the government has stated that there is no question of postponing the counselling at this stage, the Seemandhra government employees’ JAC said that it has decided to boycott counselling to protest the state’s bifurcation.
The United AP JAC, comprising all sections of people of Seemandhra region, too, has said that it won’t allow Eamcet counselling to take place till the Centre rolls back the bifurcation. Students from Seemandhra region will, thus, be left with no other option but to travel to Telangana to attend the counselling.
There are 34 counselling centres in Seemandhra and 22 in Telangana. The government, meanwhile, is considering options such as allowing students from Seemandhra to opt for their preferred colleges and courses in the Web-based counselling without attending the counselling centres for certificate verification. However, there are fears that it may lead to complications.
United AP activists want Eamcet counselling put off
The Samaikhya Rashtra Parirakshana Vedika on Sunday demanded that the government should postpone counselling for admission into engineering colleges scheduled from Monday.
The meeting of Parirakshana Vedika, which has been formed on the lines of the political Joint Action Committee for Telangana, was attended by representatives from AP NGOs Association, TD legislator P. Keshav, Congress leader N. Tulasi Reddy, noted singer Ghazal Srinivas and Janachaitanya vedika state president V. Lakshmana Reddy.
The meeting discussed about the future course of action to strengthen the struggle for unified AP. Later, speaking to media, Keshav said people of Andhra and Rayalaseema have been fighting against the decision to divide the state without any political parties’ patronage. One shall respect the agitation which is spontaneous and highly emotional, he said.
APNGOs leaders said careers of lakhs of students their regions would be at stake if the government went ahead with counselling. The employees who should issue certificates and those who must verify it are on strike. Besides, the RTC strike has made it difficult for students and parents to attend the counselling.