Nellore, July 26: YSRCP has reiterated its demand for the resignation of Education Minister Nara Lokesh in the wake of large-scale irregularities in the DSC and has sought a CBI inquiry to bring out the actual facts.
Speaking to the media here on Sunday, Party MLC P. Chandrasekhar Reddy said the Education Minister should immediately resign as irregularities in the DSC process, from notification to recruitment, have been exposed time and again.
For all teacher posts, the Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) is mandatory, and it was mentioned in the DSC notification itself that only TET-qualified candidates would be considered for recruitment.
However, the DSC process was conducted without following the norms, which is a major anomaly. Those who were given jobs under the DSC are now writing the TET, as there is a court ruling that all teachers should be TET-qualified, except those appointed as Physical Directors.
It clearly shows how the coalition government has bypassed the prescribed norms and given jobs to those who do not possess TET qualifications.
Apart from this, the question paper setting process, the alleged paper leak, valuation, and recruitment process have witnessed several irregularities. These should be probed by the CBI, and the Education Minister should resign immediately.
The education system has been completely weakened, with the reforms introduced by Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy being done away with. The scrapping of Nadu Nedu, English-medium education, and other initiatives shows that the government has scant interest in the education system.
The Talliki Vandanam scheme is not being implemented in its intended spirit, and over 20 lakh beneficiaries have been excluded to suit the government's allocated budget.
Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy has been functioning as an effective Opposition leader and has consistently been raising issues of public interest. The government's move to privatise medical colleges did not receive attention until he exposed the claims of Chandrababu.
We demand that the Education Minister resign immediately and that a CBI inquiry be ordered into the DSC issue, he said.
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