Hyderabad: Even after a month since intermediate classes started, Telugu medium first-year students in the government junior colleges have not yet received their textbooks, impeding their academic journey.
The supply of textbooks got delayed because the Telugu Akademi had taken up the printing after the Board of Intermediate Education revised the first-year syllabus.
Lecturers said the issue is affecting students who are mostly from the rural areas. As the English medium books have already been supplied in all government junior colleges, lecturers are teaching through the English textbooks and translating the same to the Telugu during classes.
Speaking to Deccan Chronicle, M. Bharath Kumar, a first-year student, said, “It is getting difficult for us to just listen to the class without having a textbook. How can we revise the lessons after the class?” The student said, “Topics like the constitution and its features need to be studied immediately after the lecture, which will be based on the whole subject, but we don’t have the books”.
Another student, Sagar, said, “We have been waiting every day for books for over a month. When we ask the college faculty, they say the books have not yet been supplied. The textbooks are also not available in the open market as well,” he said.
However, the Telugu Akademi chairman Prof Venakata Narayana said all the first-year books were released at the beginning of June, and there is no delay from the Akademi.
Dr Vaskula Srinivas and Dr Koppisetti Suresh, president and secretary of the Telangana Gazetted Junior Lecturers Association (TGJLA-475), said that they had submitted an online representation to Board of Intermediate Education director Abhilasha Abhinav. They noted that this situation is causing hardship to students, and they requested the immediate distribution of the textbooks.
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