On Wednesday, a meeting of the officials of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana on issues related to Higher Education Council was held at the Union Home Ministry in the presence of a few senior officials in the Union Government.
At the end of the day-long deliberations, it was agreed that finances pertaining to institutions related to Higher Education Council between the two States will be divided in the proportion of 58 and 42 per cent for Andhra Pradesh and Telangana respectively.
According to the officials present at the meeting it was also agreed that the education infrastructure related to the institutions under the Higher Education Council will continue in the respective States where it exists now.
Division of assets between the two states is work in progress and since the creation of the two new states the Union Home Ministry, which is the nodal agency for coordination of all issues related between the state, has facilitated the meeting with the officials of both the states to sort out issues from time to time.
The Supreme Court in March last year ruled that assets and liabilities of Andhra Pradesh State Council of Higher Education (APSCHE) which was listed under Schedule 10 of AP Reorganisation Act, 2104, should be shared between both states in 58:42 ratio. AP representatives want the same guideline to be applied on 17 corporations identified by them in Schedule 9.
Centre had appointed Sheela Bhide committee for bifurcation of institutions under Schedule 9. It completed division of about 61listed corporations. But it did not begin the process of division of employees.
