The Telangana government is fully committed to implementing the 10-year common admission rule for higher education institutions, but will not reimburse the fees of students who are not from Telangana, Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao reiterated here.
“The Telangana government will pay for its students under the new FAST [Financial Assistance to Students of Telangana] scheme and let the Andhra Pradesh government reimburse the fees to its students studying in Telangana. My government is ready to extend financial assistance to Telangana students studying in Andhra Pradesh,” Mr. Rao said in an exclusive interview to The Hindu on Wednesday.
In the undivided Andhra Pradesh, the government used to pay the fees of every economically backward student directly to the colleges. To be eligible, the government says, a student’s parents must have been domiciled in the Telangana region since 1956 or earlier. The twin issues of scrapping the fee reimbursement scheme and using 1956 as the cut-off year to decide nativity have turned into a controversy.
