AP, T Govts to Reimburse Fees of Respective Students

By V V Balakrishna - HYDERABAD

Published: 17th April 2014 08:54 AM

Last Updated: 17th April 2014 08:54 AM

From the next academic year onwards, the fee of around 39,000 Seemandhra students studying in Telangana will be reimbursed by Andhra Pradesh government and around 18,000 Telangana students studying in Andhra Pradesh will also be reimbursed by the Telangana government.
For this, the state government is preparing modules and making administrative arrangements for reimbursing the fee of students in a smooth manner.
Most of the Seemandhra students studying in Telangana are pursuing professional courses, while Telangana students are studying Intermediate and degree courses in Seemandhra districts.
The social welfare department is making arrangements for students studying outside their state from June 2. The department will reimburse the fee and give scholarships to around 27 lakh students by spending around Rs 5,000 crore annually on this.
Of the 27 lakh students, around 57,000 students were studying in places other than their region. The nativity of these students will be determined by where they obtained caste certificate for SC and ST students and income certificate for OBC students.
Of the 39,000 students of Seemandhra studying in Telangana, the AP government has to reimburse Rs 126 crore for 2014-15 academic year. The Telangana government has to reimburse around Rs 34 crore for 2014-15 for its students studying in AP. Of the 39,000 Seemandhra students studying in Telangana, 23,500 are pursing professional courses. Around 6,300 Intermediate and 6,600 degree colleges.
Of the 18,000 Telangana students studying in Seemandhra, 3,256 are in professional colleges, 7,500 Intermediate and 4,200 are in degree colleges.
‘’Around 60 students of Seemandhra studying Telangana are in professional colleges and only 18 per cent Telangana students are in professional colleges in Seemandhra,” an official of the social welfare department told Express.
For the last quarter of 2013-14, Rs 1,376 crore fee reimbursement amount was pending for Seemandhra and Rs 1,360 crore for Telangana region. The respective state governments have to reimburse the amounts in the next academic year, official sources said.