Rajahmundry, June 25th: The educational authorities have started issuing notices to the schools and junior colleges, asking them to submit details of fees collected from the students for admission into their colleges. In wake of allegations from parents and students over the collection of high fees and governments decision to constitute a body to come up with recommendations for imposing regulations on admission fees the authorities have issued notices to the schools and colleges.
Admissions from lower kindergarten to class X costs between Rs 5,000 and Rs 20,000 and students of intermediate course have to pay fees ranging from Rs 7,000 to Rs 12,000 for the I year with Eamcet coaching. For II year they have to pay Rs 9,000 to Rs 14,000 with Eamcet. Coaching for entrance test for IIT and AIEEE courses costs an additional Rs 5,000 per annum.
Parents are alleging that the college managements have commercialized education to make money in form of fee and donations. They demand the government to regularize fee collections. The school education regional joint director, Mr. S Jagannath Reddy said that they have sent the notices to various schools to get information on fee structure. “We will impose regulations”, he said.
Tirupati, June 26th: On the reason of three eclipses that are slated to occur in the space of a month the Tirumala temple, the abode of Lord Venkateswara will remain closed. The first in the series of celestial events would be the lunar eclipse on July 7, followed by solar eclipse on July 22 and an...
Hyderabad, June 26th: A nine year old girl was kidnapped and later found on Friday. According to the police, Varalaxmi, 9 and her seven year old brother were walking back to house in Begampet. An auto rickshaw driver stopped them and asked to get into the vehicle. He told them that he was an acquai...
Kakinada, June 26th: The Annual credit plan of East Godavari district for financial year 2009-10 has been fixed at Rs. 4,013 crore as against the last year’s figure of Rs. 3,000 crore. It was an increase of about Rs. 1,013 crore (33.75 per cent). A total sum of Rs. 1,798 crore (24.5 per cent)...
Rampachodavaram, June 26th: The Chief Minister, Dr. Y.S Raja Shekar Reddy will visit Rampachodavaram agency and participate in several programs in East Godavari district on July 5. To mark the arrangements for the Chief Minister’s visit, the Integrated Tribal Development ITDA project officer,...
Hyderabad, June 28th: The government has recently brought down the rate of Value Added Tax (VAT) from 7.5 percent to 4 percent. But several hotels and restaurants still charge customers at the old rate of 7.5 percent. The Non-compliance is more in middle segment restaurants and those attached to ba...
Hyderabad, June 28th: A newly married couple ended their lives by injecting poison. The incident took place on Sunday at Jalagam Vengala Rao Park in Banjara Hills. The park security found the bodies lying unconsciously in a corner of the park and gave information to the police. Police reached the ...
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