TDP comes up with more promises

HYDERABAD: Free supply of subsidised rice, doubling the monthly quota, waiver of jewel loans, houses for government employees and free supply of LPG under Deepam scheme are to be included in the Telugu Desam manifesto for the Assembly elections.
These promises are among the 208 listed out in a booklet circulated among the Polit Bureau members, other important leaders, MPs, MLAs, MLCs of the party who attended a brainstorming session, stated to be the first of the preparatory meetings for the coming elections. TDP president, N. Chandrababu Naidu, was the key speaker.
These promises were categorised into welfare of the poor, farmers, women, youth, backward classes, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. Completion of irrigation projects with vigour, crop loan waiver to be extended to all farmers, piped supply of LPG in towns and free education for the economically backward were the other promises.
Meanwhile, inaugurating the meet, Mr. Naidu called upon the leaders to gear up for Assembly and Lok Sabha elections slated in the next six months. The schedule of these elections could be decided by the next Lok Sabha session scheduled in October. The survival of the UPA government was becoming difficult as more members who had defied party whips in the confidence vote are likely to be disqualified.

All-round failure

With no section of the people happy with the government, the TDP would romp home in the next elections, he asserted. He wanted the party leaders to highlight the all-round failure of the State government, especially corruption, the way it could not control price rise, extend crop loan waiver to all farmers, ensure
Minimum Support Price of Rs. 1000 per quintal of paddy and pushed the women’s self help groups into debt trap by promising “pavla vaddi” but levying compounding interest.

JNTU students hack exam portals

HYDERABAD: Technology comes with its own limitations and deficiencies and some students of the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU) are exploiting these shortcomings to crack into the examination portals and steal the question bank.
The hacked questions are shared with other students using popular networking sites like Orkut or web groups like Yahoo and Gmail.
These question banks pertain to the internals conducted online by the University carrying 20 marks each for every subject in every semester. Majority of students in the cities who are part of these groups are able to download the question bank consisting of 180 questions.
A third year engineering student agreed that there are some bright students who crack the examination portal. The hackers don’t even allow their friends to toil studying the questions and searching for answers.
A software available with them is embedded to the question bank and it searches the right answers and highlights them in bold for easy identification. Some of them are so advanced that they insert a pen drive, loaded with the software, in the examination hall and it answers the questions.
Interestingly, the JNTU introduced online examination system when it found that some colleges were resorting to leakage of question papers for their students’ benefit. The then Vice Chancellor, Y. Venkatrami Reddy, introduced the system of sending question papers through CDs locked with a password that used to be revealed an hour before examination. Later, online testing was adopted.
The JNTU in-charge Registrar, E. Saibaba Reddy said earlier revelations were that students were able to guess the answers based on the pattern of the question papers. That was plugged making changes in the system.
“We will study it and enhance our security systems if needed,” he said.
However, he said the University had discussed a plan to increase the number of questions in the bank and give open access.