Thousands of students, who wish to appear for the entrance examination for admission into various post-graduation courses from East and West Godavari districts, are now in a state of confusion about choosing of the university from the available two options. Till the last year, the lone option for the aspirants of post-graduation courses was Andhra University’s Common Entrance Test – popularly known as AUCET.
This year, for the first time, the decade-old Adikavi Nannaya University is conducting Nannaya CET to enrol students of East Godavari districts into various post-graduation courses. Representatives of the university are visiting all the important towns and cities in the two districts and campaigning about the Nannaya CET. As they are stating that all the post-graduation colleges in the twin Godavari districts are in the fold of Adikavi Nannaya University, students are getting confused about the admission process to join Andhra University.
“The students can take the AUCET and get admission into the course of their choice either on the main campus of Andhra University or any of the PG centres located in Kakinada, Tadepalligudem, Vizianagaram,” says Y. Somalatha, special officer of Andhra University’s PG centre at Timmapuram on the city’s outskirts. “For the last one week, we have been getting phone calls from students and parents about the very existence of the PG centre. The students can join the courses here after clearing the AUCET and get their post-graduation degree from the UGC-recognised university,” explains Dr. Somalatha.
Even as Adikavi Nannaya University was established a decade ago, the admissions were done basing on the AUCET so far.
In the absence of clear guidelines from the State government, lot of uncertainty prevailed over managing the private post-graduation colleges and conducting the entrance tests. Rumours about possible merger of the PG centre with ANUR seem to be the epicentre of the confusion.
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