Failing in exam isn't equal to failing in life: KCR

With two more students who failed in intermediate committing suicide, the Telangana government has finally come up with a few solutions to the goofed up results that took the life of 18 students so far.

Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Wednesday conducted a review meeting and issued instructions to the officers to offer free of cost re-verification and re-counting of papers to all the intermediate students who failed in the examinations.

The CM said that re-verification or re-counting would be done as per the prevailing norms for the students who passed who still want them. The re-verification and re-counting process should be expedited and completed soon and should be followed by the advanced supplementary examinations so that the academic year is not lost for the students planning to attend NEET and JEE countrywide entrance tests.

The CM entrusted the responsibility of conducting re-verification, re-counting and advanced supplementary examinations to Education Secretary B. Janardhan Reddy.

Expressing shock over suicides of students who failed in the intermediate examination, the CM appealed that no student should resort to suicide. Expressing his hurt and unhappiness over such incidents, he said: "Intermediate education is not the entire life. Failing in examination does not amount to failing in life. Life is precious."

He added that whether the responsibility of conducting examinations could be entrusted to an autonomous body needs to be examined.

Out of the 9.74 lakh students who wrote the intermediate examination, 3.28 lakh have failed.