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Rs.1,200-cr. fee reimbursement for economically weak: K. C. Reddy

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Institute for Electronic Governance CEO A. Amarnath Reddy, APSCHE chairman K.C. Reddy and Nagarjuna University Vice-Chancellor Y. R. Haragopala Reddy at a programme on the campus on Monday.

GUNTUR: The State Government has become the first to take professional education to the doorstep of the economically poor by subsidising a fee of Rs.1,200 crores, which will be implemented very soon, said Andhra Pradesh State Council for Higher Education chairman K.C. Reddy, here on Monday.

Inaugurating the first Regional Centre of Jawahar Knowledge Centre in the State on Acharya Nagarjuna University campus on Monday, he said 1.20 lakh students had got admitted into professional engineering colleges and the State Government had finalised the modalities for implementing fee subsidy for students studying in engineering colleges and whose parents had annual income below Rs.1 lakh.

Explaining the purpose of setting up the Regional Centre on the campus, he said the work was being decentralised for better coordination and implementation of the JKC training programmes.

"Fine-tuning of the courses is being done to help rural students find jobs in the expanding service industry in addition to the IT and BPO sector targeted since December 2004," said Mr. Reddy.

Conventional courses were also being promoted equally as those passing out from those colleges were also able to secure jobs in the IT, BPO and other service industries. The aim of setting up Regional Centres was to help have better monitoring at the grassroots level, said Institute of Electronic Governance Chief Executive Officer A. Amarnadh Reddy.

Alternate economy was the target for the new skills to be provided to students so that they found jobs in the retail sector, hospitality, hotel management, medical transcription etc., he explained.

Focus now was not only on engineering students, but all undergraduates to provide them English speaking skills and soft skills in addition to honing their domain skills, said Mr. K.C. Reddy while inaugurating a five-day training programme for 50 trainers chosen from all over the State.

ANU Vice-Chancellor Y.R. Haragopala Reddy, Rector K. Viyyanna Rao and Registrar MVN Sarma were present.

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