Warangal: Students and parents staged a protest in front of the St. Peters High School in Kazipet after 144 Telugu medium students were given English and Hindi medium question paper in the Neet held in Warangal district on Sunday.
The centre did not receive Telugu question papers. The students lost one year because of the negligence of the officials. The students were asked by officials to wait for some time till they find a Telugu medium question paper and take photocopies. However, this did not happen. Students could not answer any of the questions and they returned blank OMR sheets. As many as 850 students appeared for the exam at this centre.
Students and parents questioned officials and pleaded for justice. As some student organisations too joined in the protest, the situation turned tense and the police were called in to control the crowd. A case has been filed by the parents over the exam error. “After two years in intermediate, I went through one year of coaching and prepared well for the exam.
Now, for no fault of mine, I missed an opportunity to score a good rank and get a seat in a good college. I was given an English medium question paper. How can I answer it? I have been studying in Telugu medium since childhood and also opted for Telugu as the medium while applying for Neet. I had many hopes and dreams to pursue a career in medicine. Now, all my dreams are dashed,” said a student, Amrutha.
The parents urged the officials to ensure the students get an opportunity to write the exam. “We have spent lakhs of rupees for the education of our son. He went to coaching for a year. Today he was given an English question paper and he couldn’t answer it. The education minister must explain matters and hold another exam,” pleaded a parent, K. Raghavulu.
Officials at the examination centre said they have noted down the hall ticket numbers of the students who received the wrong question paper and this was sent to the coordinators in Delhi. The coordinators would do the needful, they said.
