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Andhra Pradesh Education Secretary Kona Sasidhar has refuted the allegations surrounding Mega DSC-2025, describing them arsenic baseless, politically motivated and intended to mislead candidates.
Addressing the media connected Saturday (May 30, 2026), Mr. Sasidhar said that each signifier of the recruitment process was conducted with transparency, fairness and strictly successful accordance with the authorities rules, notifications and ineligible provisions.
Mega DSC-2025, the archetypal large teacher recruitment thrust undertaken successful Andhra Pradesh since 2018, notified 16,347 teacher posts and received astir 3.36 lakh applications, helium said, adding that contempt facing 241 tribunal cases, including the 1 successful the Supreme Court, the authorities had completed the recruitment process wrong a grounds 145 to 148 days without immoderate judicial interruption.
Appointment orders were issued to 15,941 eligible candidates, helium said.
Rejecting allegations of question insubstantial leak, helium clarified that the examinations were conducted done TCS iON, a nationally reputed Computer-Based Testing (CBT) level utilized by premier institutions and recruitment agencies.
“A full of 89 introspection sessions were conducted crossed 154 centres, including 19 extracurricular Andhra Pradesh. Different question papers were acceptable done a randomised question slope of astir 42,000 questions, making the leak technically impossible. No authoritative ailment oregon grounds regarding immoderate insubstantial leak had been received,” helium said.
Mr. Sasidhar denied allegations of deletion oregon manipulation of data. “All introspection records, campaigner responses, normalised scores, merit rankings and enactment information were securely maintained done encrypted integer systems with aggregate verification layers. Draft and last reply keys, normalised scores, district-wise merit lists and combined TET-DSC scores were published arsenic per docket and stay accessible to candidates,” helium said.
Dismissing claims that merit lists were concealed, Mr. Sasidhar said elaborate district-wise merit lists containing candidates’ scores, ranks and preservation details were published. Candidates were informed done aggregate SMS alerts and the certificate verification was conducted lone aft work of merit lists.
Referring to ineligible challenges, helium said that nary tribunal recovered immoderate usurpation of recruitment rules oregon preservation norms, nor did immoderate tribunal enactment the introspection process.
Referring to the wide discussed Naveen case, helium clarified that the idiosyncratic had nary relation successful the behaviour of the examinations oregon integer systems. His candidature was rejected due to the fact that helium had failed to get the required permissions and did not be certificate verification, making him ineligible nether the DSC rules.
Reservation policies
The authorities stated that preservation policies were implemented strictly arsenic per the notified rules, including horizontal reservations for women, persons with disabilities, ex-servicemen and sportspersons, on with SC sub-classification. Sports quota recruitment was held separately, with 421 posts earmarked nether the enhanced 3% reservation.
To code candidates’ concerns, a three-tier grievance redressal mechanics comprising Zonal Committees, a State-Level Committee and a Final Appellate Authority examined and resolved astir 33,000 grievances, helium said.
“The Mega DSC-2025 was a landmark recruitment workout that combined precocious technology, stringent information measures, technological normalisation, transparent grievance redressal and implicit adherence to ineligible and administrative norms,” helium said.
School Education Director Thameem Ansariya and different officials were besides present.
