HYDERABAD: Junior colleges were affected by a bandh on Tuesday, called to protest the alleged negligence of the TS Board of Intermediate Education (BIE) and state government in the declaration of Intermediate results after over half the first year students were declared failed in the annual exams.
In response to call given by the ABVP, private and government colleges remained shut in several districts. The ABVP staged a dharna in front of the BIE office here on Tuesday.
Speaking at the dharna, ABVP state secretary Praveen Reddy said the TRS government had neglected academics during the Covid-19 pandemic. Lapses of the Intermediate Board had resulted in several students dying by suicide, he allege. He demanded that Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao intervene in the issue and rectify the errors in Intermediate results.
Praveen Reddy said that revaluation of answer sheets should be taken up for free. He demanded that the BIE secretary be shunted out as he failed to conduct the regular classes and complete the syllabus. He urged students not to resort to extreme steps over the Intermediate results , and that the ABVP would fight on their behalf.
