Former minister and Congress official spokespersons’ convener Mohd Shabbir Ali has said that the students need not worry about changes in Fees Reimbursement Scheme issue because the State Government has not taken a final decision on the Cabinet Sub-Committee’s report on it.
Speaking to the media at Gandhi Bhavan here on Thursday, Shabbir Ali said that Fees Reimbursement Scheme was introduced by the Congress Government and about 24 lakh students were getting benefit from the scheme. The student number will reach up to 30 lakh this year. The government will take a final decision on the issue only after examining the Cabinet Sub-Committee’s report. He said the government would take a final decision soon and assured that no burden would be caused to the students.
Charging TDP Chief N Chandrababu Naidu with provoking the students on Fees Reimbursement Scheme, Shabbir Ali asked the former as what he had done to the students during his nine-year rule. He said that while the Congress government spent Rs 4,000 crores, the TDP government had spent a meager Rs 300 crores. He also said that Chandrababu’s party forfeited security deposits in the recent bye-elections just because of his cheap politics.
He asked Naidu whether he thought of providing quality education to the students during his rule. He said that he had spoken to the Cabinet Sub-Committee members on Fees Reimbursement and was told that they had rectified their mistake. He also said that the students took agitation path because they have received misinformation about the Cabinet Sub-Committee’s report on Fees Reimbursement Scheme.
Asked whether power crisis had occurred due to his decision as Power Minister in 2008, Shabbir Ali said that during his tenure there was no lack of gas supply to the State and the gas supply was reduced only after the end of his tenure. The successive government had also failed to take a correct decision on the gas issue resulting in gas and power crises, he added.
–Agencies