BRS MLC calls out Congress conspiracy to weaken fee reimbursement scheme through GO 9
BRS MLC Dasoju Sravan accused the Congress government of deliberately weakening the fee reimbursement scheme through GO Ms No. 9, alleging it was aimed at concealing the State’s financial crisis rather than safeguarding students.
Hyderabad: BRS MLC Dasoju Sravan accused the Congress government of conspiring to weaken the fee reimbursement scheme through GO Ms No. 9. He said the new order was designed to mask the State’s financial distress rather than protect students’ interests.
Demanding immediate release of all pending fee reimbursement arrears, he urged the government to stop playing politics with students’ futures and ensure that access to higher education was available to poor and middle-class students
Citing the recent High Court stay on the GO, Sravan said the order exposed the government’s failure to clear hundreds of crores of pending fee reimbursement dues while preventing private colleges from collecting fees from students.
“The government is withholding funds due to colleges and shifting the burden of its financial mismanagement onto educational institutions,” he said.
He reminded the court had questioned how colleges could meet salary and operational expenses without the government clearing reimbursement payments.
Sravan argued that the policy could financially strain educational institutions, affecting academic standards and campus placements, with students from poor and middle-class families ultimately bearing the impact. He alleged that delays in releasing funds had created an artificial crisis, while private colleges were being portrayed as responsible for the situation.
The BRS leader said the government’s handling of the case indicated a lack of commitment to defending the policy. “If the government was genuinely concerned about students, it should have vigorously defended GO 9 in court and simultaneously cleared pending dues,” he said.
Accusing the government of using the court proceedings as a shield, Sravan said its failure to effectively defend the order had left students vulnerable to fee demands from private institutions. He also criticised the Congress government for failing to fulfil its promise of allocating 15 per cent of the State budget to education.
