Don’t hold original certificates

TSCHE has directed the registrars of the Universities to return the original certificates to students who joined B Pharmacy and Pharma-D courses in private colleges so that they could appear for the Eamcet III counselling.

Pharmacy colleges, however, are reluctant to handover the original certificates to students and insist on full payment of fee.

For instance, Tejaswini, a student who took admission into Pharma-D in Bhaskara College was told to pay the six-year fee that amounts to over Rs 4 lakh. She asks, “The past few days have been stressful.

The student community is already suffering due to the re-examinations and many have aspirations to do MBBS and BDS. How can the managements ask us to pay the total fee?” R Laxmi, another student, said there is also no guarantee of the seat if a student wants to return and do the course. Also, the students need to keep producing original certificates for each course.

There are 21 colleges and 1,050 seats for Pharma-D and 9,000 seats for B Pharmacy in 126 colleges. Dr K Ramadas, president of the Telangana Pharmacy College Managements’ Association, says, “According to the Eamcet Convenor Rules, if a student wishes to go for another course he would have to pay the complete course fee.”

He further adds, “The government needs to conduct spot admission counseling and make the admissions again in management quota.” E Raghu, a distraught parent says, “This confusion is due to the Eamcet III. Due to a few rotten apples, the whole student community is suffering.”

It is for the first time that the admissions for pharmacy were conducted even before the MBBS and BDS admissions and that is the reason why all the confusion started, rues a parent.