The Telangana Government has decided to continue the flagship programme of the previous Government of reimbursing the fee of students with a rider that it will cover only natives of Telangana and not of Seemandhra.
Under the scheme the Government will reimburse the fee of the student of professional colleges and provide them with scholarships. But the students belonging to Andhra Pradesh or any other State will not be covered under the scheme.The scheme will put a burden of Rs250 billion on the State exchequer. The decision has brought cheers to hundreds of thousands of students ahead of admissions in to the professional colleges.
The decision was taken at an all-party meeting chaired by the Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao. The scheme was originally launched by the Congress Chief Minister YS Rajashekhar Reddy in 2005 and continued even after his death by all the successive Chief Ministers.State Deputy CM T Rajaiah and Education Minister Jagdishwar Reddy said that the beneficiary students would be identified on the basis of domicile and income certificate and income certificates submitted in the past.
The scheme will benefit the students whose parents’ annual income was upto Rs1 lakh in case of backward classes, minorities, economically backward classes and physically challenged and Rs2 lakh in case of scheduled castes and scheduled tribes. While full fee will be reimbursed in case of students who secured less than 10,000 ranks in EAMCET and only Rs35,000 will be reimbursed for others.