hyderabad admitting students in excess of the approved intake might cost the mesco college of pharmacy dearly as state higher education officials are now mulling cancelling the affiliation of the institute for the next academic yearspeaking to stoi t papi reddy chairman telangana state council of higher education tsche on saturday said that they would initiate action against the management for putting the lives of 15 students in jeopardyin the name of minority college the management of mesco is playing with the lives of students from the same community as of now our main aim is to see that students are not at the receiving end and we will try our best to make sure that these students do not lose an academic year but in the forthcoming academic year we will initiate stern action against the college we will either reduce their intake or see if their affiliation can be cancelled said reddysquarely blaming the college for the recent fiasco where 15 students were denied hall tickets the tsche officials said that college was granted permission to admit only 72 students 42 under convener quota and 30 under management quota and should have adhered to that numberwe are in touch with osmania university officials on the issue and our preliminary enquiry shows thats the college initially had no permission to admit any students they then went to court and secured approval to admit 72 students however they admitted 87 students and the court is yet to give its verdict on the excess admissions said an official adding that court may issue an order on monday regarding the issuethe varsity officials on the other hand said that management of mesco college is yet to approach themthe college has to approach and give us proper justification on why they admitted excess students they are yet to so that and as of now only the students have approached us requesting us to accept their admission and issue hall tickets said ch gopal reddy registrar outhe students meanwhile approached the tsche and requested the officials to intervene in the matter and direct ou to issue hall tickets so that they can write the remaining exams the semester exams for b pharmacy students started on tuesday