Telangana Chief Minister KCR has rejected the attempt of his Andhra Pradesh counterpart N Chandrababu Naidu to make Telangana share the burden of the fee reimbursement scheme. Reacting to Naidu’s offer that Andhra Pradesh would bear 58 per cent of the scheme if Telangana paid 42 per cent of the fees, KCR said that it was not possible. He said that the Telangana government will follow the guidelines of the Supreme Court on this issue. The Telangana CM said he is willing to pay 5000 more for each student from his state but not a rupee for students from other states. “We are not willing to pay the fee of non-local students. If we pay the fee of Andhra Pradesh ...

CM KCR kept his word that he would take along all parties in important decisions and  called an all-party meeting today to discuss and review students fee reimbursement programme. The meeting would be attended by  representatives of all parties along with ministers today at 6 PM. KCR already held 2 review meetings with officials of education and finance department in this regard and has arrived at some proposals which he is expected to keep before all the parties in the meeting and elicit their opinions on the same. Approach to fee reimbursement in view of bifurcation, the annual income limits to be placed to qualify for reimbursement, qualification of students for reimbursement are some of the issues to be discussed at ...