AP is facing a crisis with results being only recently announced
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Hyderabad: The Andhra Pradesh Board of Intermediate Education is urging its former bankers to allow it access to funds to prevent hardships to about 10 lakh Intermediate students and pass-outs in the state. The APBIE has to issue mark memos to passed out students which are crucial in counselling sessions for Eamcet, IIT JEE and other admissions.
APBIE has no access to finances after the Telangana State Board of Intermediate Education on Wednesday wrote to all the bankers asking them to freeze the APBIE accounts citing the recent Hyderabad High Court in the AP State Council of Higher Education matter. Since then, banks have frozen accounts of the APBIE.
Funds to the tune of Rs 109 crore of the erstwhile BIE were already divided between the Andhra Pradesh and TSBIE according to the population ratio. In the APSCHE matter last month, the Hyderabad High Court had ruled that the APSCHE and all its assets in Telangana belong to the TS government and the Telangana State Council of Higher Education. The TS government interpretation is that the ruling applies to all the Tenth Schedule institutions.
Consequently, banks froze the accounts of APBIE on the insistence of the TSBIE. As a result, AP is facing a crisis with results being only recently announced and students waiting for their marks memos. Without access to funds, the Inter Board is crippled since it can’t pay salaries or print memos and certificates.
“We have made certain arrangements beforehand. But funds are important issue. We are asking banks to at least release some amount since it concerns 10 lakh students. But they are not even responding,” a senior official of the APBIE said. The Intermediate body is of the opinion that the High Court judgement pertains only to the APSCHE and can’t be applied to every institution. APBIE is now mulling legal options to get out of the tangle.
( Source : deccan chronicle )
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