Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, will write to his Telangana counterpart K. Chandrasekhar Rao, to issue orders to immediately start the admission process into engineering courses.
Mr Naidu has said that lakhs of students from both Telangana and Andhra Pradesh were being affected due to the delay in the Eamcet (engineering stream) counselling for admissions.
Any further delay would possibly result in meritorious students from both the states going to other states, he said.
As per the AP Reorganisation Act, education will continue to be a combined subject for both the states for next 10 years. In the interests of students of both the states, let the admission process first begin and the fee reimbursement issue can be settled later, Mr Naidu said.
Earlier, IT minister Palle Raghunatha Reddy, had said that the AP Cabinet had decided that Mr Naidu would meet Mr Rao to sort out the fee reimbursement issue “if required”.
He said that the Andhra Pradesh government would reimburse fees of all Telangana students in AP who had put in four consecutive years of education there, and urged the Telangana CM to honour the same in Telangana by extending fee reimbursement to AP students who had studied four consecutive years in the T state.
“Mr K. Chandrasekhar Rao should immediately take a decision with a good heart to conduct engineering admissions. It is a matter of life and death for lakhs of students who have qualified in the Eamcet and are waiting for counseling to begin to take admissions,” Mr Palle Raghunatha Reddy added.
