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Wednesday, Feb 23, 2005

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Andhra Pradesh

Better standard of education at Intermediate level urged

By Our Special Correspondent

SRIKAKULAM, FEB.22. The president of the Government Junior Lecturers' Association, Tamma Kameswara Rao, on Tuesday asked the Government to take measures in the interest of Intermediate students who would appear for the examination on March 9 and also to improve the standard of education at Intermediate level.

Restoration of 30 minutes grace period for students to enter the examination hall as against 15 minutes at present, releasing required funds for provision of basic facilities at the examination centres, appointing adequate number of examiners for valuation of answer papers, improving the lecturer-student ratio and infrastructure facilities at colleges were some of the measures that would help, Mr. Kameswara Rao said.

`Enhance grace period'

Speaking to newsmen at the Government College premises, he said students coming from rural areas as also those who had to cover some distance to reach the examination centre because of the jumbling system, would require more grace period.

The number of students appearing for the examination had increased manifold but improvement of facilities had not been commensurate, he said. The number of students appearing for the examination in 1,826 centres on March 9 is 6,58,045 (first year inter), 5,42,550 (second year) and 1,89,728 (private candidates).

Because of shortage of examiners, valuation would take longer and this would have an adverse impact on quality, he said. Asserting that the faculty in Government colleges was more competent when compared to corporate colleges, Mr. Kameswara Rao said the problem was infrastructure which is very poor in Government colleges. There were instances where the lecturer student ratio in Government Junior colleges was 1:200.

Facilities for students were also not adequate, he said and wanted free supply of textbooks for Intermediate students as was done in the case of tenth class students. The association leaders -- Pyda Rama Rao, P. Venkata Rao and K.V.S. Prasad participated.

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