BRS opposes plus two education system in place of Intermediate

The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) has criticised the unilateral decision of Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy to scrap the Intermediate education system from the next academic year and introduce the new system of 10+2 without any Cabinet decision, Bill in legislature and discussion on it.

In an open letter addressed to the Chief Minister, BRS MLC and spokesperson Dasoju Sravan said on Friday that the hasty decision would affect about 10 lakh students and 1,750 junior colleges. He alleged that the main beneficiaries of the decision would be corporate educational institutions’ groups such as Narayana and Sri Chaitanya.

Only such groups would hold the entire education system under their control as they operate schools from primary level. The private colleges which offer only Intermediate courses would face closure and the decision was entirely business-oriented and helpful to corporate groups including the Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy’s family members who are reportedly establishing such integrated schools offering education up to plus two level.

With 3% of the country’s population, Telangana students were securing 9.6% seats in the JEE Advanced test for admission into IITs and they were also getting 100 percentile continously in JEE Mains. Mr. Sravan stated that admission into Intermediate courses had increased 14% last year in government junior colleges.

He demanded that the government hold back its plans of plus two system and publish a White Paper on the Intermediate Education system and any decision should be taken only after a proper discussion in the legislature and also set up an experts committee to go into the matter.