STAY ON AP GRP 1 APPOINTMENTS

The AP Administrative Tribunal on Thursday directed the AP Public Service Commission to stay appointments to posts under Group I until March 15.

The Tribunal dealt with two petitions by G. Rajeswari and one other person challenging the Commission’s action of intentionally awarding fewer marks to them in the interview in order to punish them for approaching the court with a petition.

Though Andhra Pradesh and Telangana recently entered the National Eligibility and Entrance Test (Neet)- national pool along with Jammu and Kashmir, there is an increasing demand from Telugu Neet- PG aspirants to withdraw the states from the Neet national pool.

Aspirants alleged that there are very few ranks from the Telugu states amidst in the top 6,000 ranks and if the national pool is applied, there will be a huge loss of seats. Also 50 per cent of PG seats from Telugu states will be included in the national pool and top rankers from other states, will grab the seats. Remaining 30 per cent is under service quota, so only 20 per cent will remain for state aspirants.

Dr Muneer Ahmed, a PGNeet aspirant from TS said that most of the students scored marks between 450-600 and their ranks are between 9,000 to 20,000. “If we need to get a seat of our choice through All-India counselling, then our rank should be within 1,500 to 2,000. There are about 50 students within 1,500 -2,000 ranks from TS and AP. Even those 50 students may not get seat in the All-India Pool because their ranks will be in top 50 in the state rank list,” he said.

“Mostly, around 10-20 people will be taking seats from the All-India pool. The remaining 50 per cent of state seats, 30 per cent are reserved for service candidates. So only 20 per cent seats are left for open competition. These seats include SC, ST, BC, PH and remaining reservations due to which students in general category of are the worst hit. It is better if we don’t go into national pool because we need to give about 300-800 seats in national pool and in return only 10-20 students get benefitted,” he said.

Dr V. Suneela, an aspirant from AP said after giving 50 per cent of seats to the national pool, our state will only get 50 per cent of the seats.