In a major relief to the student community and their parents, the Supreme Court’s interim judgement gave a go ahead for Eamcet counselling ending the impasse over common admission process for the students of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.
The stance of Telangana Government to consider only students whose parents were the bonafide residents of Telangana as on November 1,1956 as local students and its appeal to the court to give more time to take up counselling put the Andhra Pradesh government in a piquant situation and made the future of 9.5 lakh students uncertain.
When all their efforts to persuade the Telangana Government to cooperate and abide by the 371(D), the Presidential Order in determining the nativity and also the AP State Reorganisation Act did not get any response, the Andhra Pradesh government too impleaded in the case.
Welcoming the Supreme Court interim judgement, State Media Advisor Parakala Prabhakar, Social Welfare Minister R. Kishore Babu, HRD Minister Ganta Srinivasa Rao, Health Minister Kamineni Srinivasa Rao said on Monday that the apex court judgement vindicated the decision of AP State Council for Higher Education to go ahead with common admission process.
More importantly, it gave confidence to people that the rule of law would prevail and 371(D) and Presidential Order to determine nativity could not be interpreted unilaterally, said Mr. Kishore Babu and Mr. Prabhakar.
In the light of apex court’s comments on nativity, it would be imperative for both the Governments to implement the Section 95 and 75 of the AP State Reorganisation Act on common admission process for 10 years in letter and spirit. Both the States should take up counselling jointly without discriminating between the local students of Telangana, Andhra or other States, they said in a media conference here on Monday.
“We expect the Telangana government to cooperate and abide by the SC directive to complete the process in a month in an amicable environment,” they said.
