VIJAYAWADA: Aided Junior Colleges Managements Association (AJCMA) on Tuesday demanded action against the Board of Intermediate Education (BIE) officials and prevented them from `digging a grave' for the aided colleges system in the State. Correspondents and principals from different colleges held a meeting here and decided to send a delegation to Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy to pursue their demands.

AJCMA president and former MP Mente Padmanabham said that in the past one year, the BIE started implementing different practices pushing the aided colleges into an unprecedented crisis. The officers were obviously doing this only with a view to benefiting corporate colleges. If the aided colleges were weakened, it would cause damage to the interests of students of weaker sections of society.

Mr. Padmanabham said that in the past, the BIE used to deny grant-in-aid to vacancies that arose due to promotion of existing employees or in case of retirements. Of late, the board officials went a few steps further and followed various methods to get aided lecturers transferred to Government colleges on the plea that they had no required strength. " It is the game plan of an officer that is leading to the ruination of the entire aided college system," he said.

AJCMA vice-presidents Ch. Kumari and P. Santhi Kishore said that if the Government did not repatriate all the 700 teaching and 200 non-teaching staff to their parent colleges, the managements would begin an agitation from the beginning of the next academic year.

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