Hans News Service Amaravati

TheYSRCP raised alleged irregularities in the Andhra Pradesh DSC-2025 teacher recruitment in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday, with YSR Congress Parliamentary Party leader and Rajya Sabha MP Y V Subba Reddy demanded resignation of IT and HRD minister Nara Lokesh and called for the anti-paper leak legislation to be expanded to cover all State-level recruitment examinations.

Participating in the debate on the Anti-Paper Leak Bill, Subba Reddy extended the YSRCP’s support to the proposed legislation but argued that it should not be confined to examinations conducted by the UPSC, SSC and National Testing Agency (NTA). Alleging large-scale irregularities in the DSC-2025 recruitment process, he claimed that teacher posts were sold, the selection process was manipulated and the examination paper was leaked. “Just as the Union Education Minister resigned by accepting moral responsibility, Andhra Pradesh education minister Nara Lokesh should also step down over the DSC scam,” he demanded. The YSRCP leader urged the Centre to bring examinations conducted by State agencies, including APPSC, DSC and APEAPCET, under the proposed law to strengthen the integrity of recruitment and restore public confidence in the examination system. He also alleged that coaching-centre mafias were playing a major role in examination paper leaks and called for stringent action against them.

Raising broader concerns over education policy, Subba Reddy said students studying under the CBSE syllabus enjoy a competitive advantage in NEET compared to those following State syllabi. He claimed that the previous YS Jagan Mohan Reddy government had introduced CBSE in government schools, modernised public education and improved infrastructure, but alleged that 5.5 lakh students have left government schools under the present administration. He further alleged that while the previous YSRCP government established government medical colleges to make medical education affordable for poor students, the present NDA coalition government is moving towards privatisation, making medical education increasingly inaccessible to economically weaker sections.