Hyderabad, May 28 -- The Telangana unit of the Students Federation of India (SFI) on Tuesday urged the State government and the Telangana Social Welfare Residential Educational Institutions Society (TGSWREIS) to withdraw a new rule that limits JEE and NEET UG coaching to only those intermediate students who score 95% or above in their first-year exams.

In a statement, SFI Telangana President S. Rajnikanth and General Secretary T. Nagaraju said that coaching for competitive exams is currently being offered at Centres of Excellence (COEs) like Gowlidoddi and Chilkur. These institutions were set up to provide quality education and coaching to students from economically weaker backgrounds.

However, the new guidelines issued by TGSWREIS stat...