“The strategy of private colleges of attracting admissions by tutoring only on a few merit students has finally started showing its impact on the results at the end of academic year,” a senior government junior college lecturer said while analysing the Intermediate results.
Stands last in results
Nalgonda district has the dubious distinction of standing last in both the Intermediate first year and the second year this year in the State which was also attributed to the poor performance of the private colleges.
Parents admit their children in private colleges expecting better teaching, but it is just a myth, said a parent of Inter student.
He said that the junior colleges gather about 15 to 20 students to bag some top ranks in district and State level to attract admissions by advertising their performance. The faculty members spend more time with these students and the managements also provide them the best facilities. But, they never care about the academically poor students who take admission in their institutions.
Besides, most of the private colleges in the district have no laboratories.
The parents and government college faculty and leaders of students organisations demanded the authorities of the Board of Intermediate Education and district Collector to act tough against the erring private colleges prior to the beginning of the academic year since some of the colleges were paying money to students from scholarships to attract admissions.
Meanwhile, though Nalgonda stood last in the Intermediate results announced on Monday, the government junior colleges recorded 58 per cent pass percentage against the district average of 50 per cent. Other government institutions, Tribal Welfare Residential College (96.53 per cent), Residential Junior College, Sarvail (96 per cent), Social Welfare Residential Colleges (76 per cent), Model Schools (65 per cent) recorded better results than the much-hyped private colleges.
Speaking to The Hindu , Regional Inspection Officer, Intermediate Education, N. Prakashbabu said they were disappointed with the results since the pass percentage had decreased from last year’s 53 per cent to 50 per cent this year.
