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  • Tuition fee reimbursement: Talks begin

    HYDERABAD: The state government will try every trick up its sleeve to neutralise the demand for reimbursement of tuition fee when it holds the third round of talks with the managements of professional and engineering colleges tomorrow.

    According to sources, the government has decided to explain the financial situation and offer to go slow on initiating action against colleges which are not meeting the mandatory standards like quality infrastructure and qualified faculty.

    The cabinet sub-committee on fee reimbursement and scholarships scheme today held a two-hour-long brainstorming session today with officials over the options available for the government to end the row with the college managements. Ministers B Satyanarayana, A Ramanarayana Reddy, Baswaraj Saraiah, P Satyanarayana and Mohd Ahmedullah participated in the meeting. All the ministers and officials refused to speak to media on the government’s strategy saying they would speak only after the talks with the representatives of Consortium of Engineering and Professional Colleges Managements Association.

    Options before the government:

    * Asking colleges to borrow from banks and standing guarantee for the loans

    * Taking loans itself by mortgaging assets to banks

    * Immediate release of Rs 800 cr to professional colleges

    * Release to degree and other colleges later

    Source : Indian Express

  • Fee row: Pvt colleges to go ahead with strike

    HYDERABAD: The standoff between engineering colleges and the state government on the fee reimbursement issue is likely to continue for long. The private college managements have stated that they will go ahead with the proposed strike from February 16 if the government fails to release the entire fee arrears immediately.

    The colleges also have also refused to take bank loans on the government’s counter guarantee. They stated that they were not ready to pay interest to banks.

    Ramesh Nimmatoori, an official of a college, said that most colleges now want the government to pay up the money as soon as possible. “At a meeting held on Monday, majority of the representatives of the colleges stated that with the Supreme Court directing the government to submit an affidavit within one week, they will not agree to any proposal to wait for over three months,” said Nimmatoori.

    With the apex court order favouring them, the colleges have put forth another proposal. “The government will have to allot Rs 7,000 crore for the fee reimbursement scheme in the coming budget as against the proposed Rs 4,000 crore,” said Nimmatoori.

    Meanwhile, a section of engineering colleges said that they want the government to release 50 per cent of funds immediately. “The rest of the funds should be released by April first week. Otherwise, we will file a contempt petition against the government,” said K Krishna Reddy, president, Rural Engineering College Managements’ Association.

    In spite of the court order, the government on Monday stated that it would not be able to release funds in a week’s time and said that the colleges would have to wait till the end of February for the same. The government also expressed it helplessness to release 50 per cent of the funds immediately. The officials, however, stated that they would come up with a permanent solution to the problem by the end of February.

    Source : TOI

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