The Hindu : B.Ed college applicants' claims to be verified on Feb.18

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Sunday, Feb 16, 2003

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B.Ed college applicants' claims to be verified on Feb.18

By Our Special Correspondent

Hyderabad Feb. 15. The State Government has called applicants of B. Ed colleges whose proposals are pending with the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) to the office of the School Education Commissioner at 10.30 am on February 18 for having their claims regarding the eligibility of principals verified.

This arrangement has been made by the Government to fully utilise the extra time given by the NCTE for undertaking the exercise and get as many as B. Ed colleges as possible sanctioned before the counselling for the remaining B. Ed candidates begins about 10 days later.

Announcing this at a press conference here on Saturday, the Minister for School Education, M. Venkateswara Rao, said the time was given to applicants for connecting the missing links, if any, regarding the eligibility prescribed for principals. Accordingly, they could come to the Commissioner's office on February 18 with due certificates and relevant papers.

Officials from the State Council for Higher Education would also be present at the verification which was expected to pave the way for clearing more applications by NCTE, the Minister said. The Education Secretary, I. V. Subba Rao, and the Commissioner for School Education, Manmohan Singh, were present.

Out of a total of 207 applications from the State, the NCTE had cleared 66 so far.

According to Mr. Venkateswara Rao, the Government had a plan to have all new B. Ed colleges, including the prospective ones out of the present pending list, opened for this academic year, say from April. If necessary, extra classes would be conducted in these colleges.

The Minister's residence at Greenlands here was swarmed by applicants, both of "sanctioned'' and "pending'' categories. A piquant situation cropped up with some applicants threatening to approach court, questioning as to how only 66 out of the 207 were cleared. The Education Secretary then withdrew the list containing the names of the "sanctioned'' colleges from reporters.

The eligibility prescribed for the principal post, explained the Minister, were a master's degree and M. Ed pass, each with 50 to 55 per cent marks, a 10-year experience of which five years as principal of B.Ed or degree college. There was a 5 per cent relaxation in marks in the case of SCs and STs.

The Minister and the officials said the counselling for DSC untrained candidates would start from February 25 and they would join duty from March 1. A three-month training for them would start from April 1. There were about 16,000 such candidates all belonging to SC, ST and BC categories.

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