Hyderabad, September 25: Most of the candidates appearing for the GroupI examination at Warangal and Hyderabad on Sunday reached the respective places a week ago due to the uncertainty of transport services on account of Sakala Janula Samme in Telangana.
Public road transport service has remained paralysed in the region since September 19 on account of the strike by RTC employees. Making things worse, the rail roko began on Saturday, immobilising trains.
The AP Public Service Commission is holding the examination in five cities- Hyderabad, Warangal, Visakhapatnam, Vijayawada and Tirupati- covering all the three regions.
Suresh, a candidate from Vijayawada, attended classes at the RC Reddy Coaching Centre at Ashok Nagar here but chose Vijayawada as his examination centre. He had taken a train a week ago to reach his home to avoid any lastminute inconvenience.
There are 12 examination centres spread across Hyderabad and three in in Warangal. As there will be no transport on Sunday, the day of the examination, these aspirants borrowed bikes from their colleagues and relatives to reach the venues of examination in time.
Praveen Kumar, a candidate, said that he asked a friend of his to drop him off at the examination centre located at Kukatpally all six days from Sunday.
Though autorickshaws will not be not available on Sunday, some women candidates hired autos one day in advance to reach the examination centres as RTC buses are not running.
Gangaiah from Siricilla in Karimnagar district had arrived in the city 15 days ago in view of the strike and has been staying with his friends while Satish from Korutla arrived here a week ago and has been staying at a relative’s house.
Though the High Court allowed the government to go ahead with conducting the examination, the candidates have demanded postponement of the examination at least by two months on the ground that they had no time to prepare for the Mains but the government was unmoved.
Chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy was firm on conducting the examination as per the schedule.
The candidates met the State Human Rights Commission in the morning but it refused to intervene in the matter saying the matter
did not come under its purview.
They also met PCC president Botcha Satyanarayana but there was no assurance to them from him either.
–Agencies