AP Chief Minister N. Chandra-babu Naidu, write to his Telangana counter-part K. Chandrasekhar Rao, to issue orders to without delay to start the admission process into engineering courses.
Mr Naidu has added that lakhs of students from both Andhra Pradesh and Telangana were being affected due to the holdup in the Eamcet (engineering stream) counselling for admissions.
Any further delay would maybe 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, allow the admission process to begin first and the issue fee reimbursement issue can be settled afterward, Mr Naidu said.
Previously, IT minister Palle Raghunatha Reddy, had said that the AP Cabinet had make a decision 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 respect the same in Telangana by continuing 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.