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`Aid scheme for private junior colleges lopsided'

Special Correspondent

TIRUPATI: Former Assembly Speaker Agarala Eswara Reddy has come down heavily on the State Government for its alleged slipshod attitude towards providing aid to private junior colleges in the State without realising that they are only filling the gap in the educational sector, which should be done by the Government.

Accusing the Government of not being realistic in extending aid to the private colleges, Mr. Reddy on Thurday justified in his statement the protests being voiced in this context by Left parties-backed students organisations like the SFI and the AISF.

The former Speaker, who had been running a private junior college near Renigunta for the last 28 years, cited his own `bad experience' with the Government in this regard.

He cited the case of Government still dragging its feet on sanctioning an economics lecturer post to his college in the place of the lecturer who died four years ago. A Hindi lecturer screened and selected by the AP State College Service Commission ten years ago was yet to be sanctioned even a consolidated salary, he said. Mr. Reddy also said that it was 'ridiculous' that the Government should say that a person appointed as a typist or record assistant should remain so for ever without any promotion.

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