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Thursday, Jul 08, 2004

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh - Visakhapatnam

Students wait for resumption of mess

The academic year has commenced, but Andhra University campus hostels are not functioning in full measure as NMRs and leave vacancy workers are yet to accept the directive of the administration to report to their respective chief wardens for allotment of work.

What stopped the workers, who have been called back after a one year break, is their apprehension that they may be put under the control of chief wardens instead of the Central Administrative Office (formerly Registrar's Office) from where they used to get wages in the past.

The administration has accommodated more number of students in hostels this year, but the mess in those hostels is not functioning. There is also disparity in accommodating students in hostels. Students of the arts stream, who secured admission in the self-finance quota, have been provided accommodation in hostels, but students of the same category in science subjects have been denied the facility. Even arts students of this category are waiting for resumption of mess in their hostels.

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The facility of revaluation of answer papers is turning to be a disadvantage for students. If authorities fail to act promptly, students who have applied for revaluation will be losing an academic year.

Some students complain that they have been told to wait for a couple of months before their papers are revalued and fresh score announced. But the counselling for ICET rankers to get admission to MCA and MBA courses is starting soon. Asking a student to wait for two months for the result of revaluation is to block his or her admission through ICET counselling.

Candidates seeking revaluation also raise doubts on the way the answer papers are valued. There must be some truth in the arguments of students that valuation is done in a hasty and erratic manner because a student who secured distinction in some subjects scored only single digit marks in other subjects. Some who secured good rank in AUCET have failed in the degree examination. Students also want authorities to reintroduce the September examination for those who failed in the year-end March examination.

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The demand to recall the Vice-Chancellor, Y.C. Simhadri, is continuing even as he keeps rolling back his reforms, the latest being withdrawal of the detention system within days after its introduction. Local MLAs belonging to the ruling party, including K. Ravibabu (S. Kota), who has to resign from the faculty to contest elections, have been asking the Chief Minister to take steps in this direction.

By G. Narasimha Rao

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