TS fee scheme FAST: AP to take legal recourse

July 30, 2014 09:21 pm | Updated 09:40 pm IST - HYDERABAD:

The Andhra Pradesh government will move court against the decision of the Telangana government to confine Financial Assistance to Students of Telangana (FAST) only to those whose parents were bona fide residents of Telangana State as on November 1, 1956.

Soon after the Telangana government issued a GO constituting a committee to formulate detailed guidelines for the FAST here on Wednesday, Social Welfare Minister R. Kishore Babu said the 1956 cutoff date was anti-constitutional and in violation of the AP State Reorganisation Act as admissions and fee were interlinked. “We discussed the issue with the Advocate General and decided to challenge it in the court,” he said.

Deploring that Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao was functioning like a dictator and riding roughshod over the rights of the students, the Minister said his actions had been causing anguish to students pursuing higher education courses and waiting for EAMCET counselling for fresh admissions.

If the Telangana Chief Minister wanted to discriminate against students whose parents settled here after 1956, then he should also not stake claim over wealth and employment created by corporate companies set up by the Andhras after 1956 increasing its GSDP, Mr. Kishore Babu quipped.

‘KCR raking up needless controversies’

Addressing media persons, Mr. Kishore Babu said that Mr. Chandrasekhar Rao was raking up such needless controversies for political mileage and creating dissensions which could lead to unrest among the student community.

Replying to a question, he said that the AP Ministers had already taken to the Centre’s notice the move of Telangana State to redefine nativity. Now that they issued a GO, the issue would be represented to the Centre as it was against the federal spirit of the Constitution.

Before the State bifurcation, Mr. Chandrasekhar Rao, the political JAC and employees association leaders sought to allay the fears of Seemandhra people by stating that their interests would be protected and there would be no discrimination against them. But now they were creating disputes by violating the provisions of the Act.

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