Discrimination in Education

Often, I think why do we need Telangana.. it seems no reasons to bother, except calls to frnds will reflect as STD in my bill, .. but when I think of the people of telangana, I feel sorry for them and raise as a fighter!.. I too had many arguments with my friends, few got convinced...few din't. So, I would like to put forth some facts which cannot be neglected.

Turing the pages of the state government allotments in the past, makes me a social revolutionist. It's a known fact that every politician works for the people of his own region. This attitude and thinking of politicians could no longer be toleraned by the people of Telangana and thus gave rise to this revolution .

Some facts that cannot be denied:

* Development of education affects and, in turn gets affected, by the pace of economic development. There is a bi-directional linkage. At the time of formation of Andhra Pradesh, it was assured that disparities in the levels of development in different regions of the state, including the field of education, would be removed in five to ten years of time. But even after five and a half decades, the literacy rate in the Telangana region continues to be lowest in the State.

* Number of Teachers in Government and Aided Degree Colleges: Telangana: 3709, Andhra: 8828. The figure makes it abundantly clear that only 29.50% of the expenditure is incurred on the Telangana region, against its entitlement of a minimum of 40.69%.

* Grant-in-Aid released to Private Aided Degree Colleges (2008-09): Andhra: 75.25%, Telangana: 24.75%. Nine Telangana districts (excluding the capital city) account for Rs. 17,05,51,900, i.e. just 8.41% of the total grant released for the entire state. In Coastal Andhra, just two districts (Krishna and Guntur) get Rs. 61, 42,47,000 i.e., 30.38% of the total grant meant for the 23 districts of the State.

* The JNTU was actually established in Warangal (Telangana); but was subsequently shifted to Hyderabad under the pretext of locating all state level universities of the State to the capital city. Same time, NTR started the University of Health Sciences in Vijayawada (Coastal Andhra) and the Women’s University in Tirupathi (Rayalaseema), Dravidian University in a remote village Kuppam and SVIMS in Tirupathi, conveniently forgetting the convention of locating the state level universities in the capital city. Finally, without any reason or restraint continued the spree of establishing state level universities, mostly in Rayalaseema and Andhra regions.

* During Dr. Rajasekhar Reddy’s tenure as the Chief Minister, ten new regional/district level universities have been established – four each in Coastal Andhra and Telangana and two in Rayalaseema. Numerically, it appears judicious; but, the pattern of the release of grants to these universities is atrocious. For instance, the Yogi Vemana University in Kadapa, Telangana University in Nizambad and Mahatma Gandhi University in Nalgonda were started at the same time. The grants released to these universities from their inception till 2009: Telangana University: 29,50,00,000; Mahatma Gandhi University: 30,51,00,000;Yogi Vemana University(Kadapa, Rayalaseema) 300,00,00,000.

Can there be a more blatant example of discrimination against Telangana?

Colleges of Engineering and Technology: Public Sector
Andhra:
1. Andhra University Engineering College (Visakhapatnam)
2. JNTU (Kakinada)
3. JNTU College of Engineering (Vijayanagaram)
4. JNTU ( Ananthapur)
5. JNTU College of Engineering (Pulivendula)
6. School of Engineering and Technology, Women’s
University (Tirupathi)
7. SV University College of Engineering (Tirupathi)
8. SKD College of Engineering (Ananthapur)
9. Yogi Vemana University College of
Engineering(Poddatur)
10. College of Agricultural Engineering (Ananthapur )
11. College of Food Sciences and Technology (Pulivendula)
12. Dairy Technology Programme (Tirupathi)

Total number of seats : 2625

Telangana:
1. JNTU ( Hyderabad)
2. Osmania University College of Engineering (Hyderabad)
3. Osmania University College of Technology (Hyderabad)
4. Kakatiya University College of Engineering (Kothagudem)
5. JNTU College of Engineering (Karimnagar)
6. Dairy Technology Programme ( Kamareddy)

Total number of seats : 1135

This is just about the technical education of the state. The discrimination is so glaring, that it hardly needs any more info on medical institutions and other areas.