Students are suffering due to delay in release of fee reimbursement :T Harish Rao

Former Minister T Harish Rao alleged that delays in fee reimbursement had forced colleges to withhold certificates, leaving students unable to pursue postgraduate courses. He also criticised the government over college closures, Skill University plans and alleged police action against protesting students

Siddipet: Former Minister T Harish Rao said that many students could not join post graduation courses since the colleges have refused to issue certificates even after completing the degree, B-Tech, B-Pharmacy and other graduation courses. Since the Congress government failed to release any funds towards fee reimbursement during the last three years, Rao said that colleges have refused to issue certificates to students.

Stating that some pharmacy students had approached him when a private college management denied them certificates, the former minister said that the management said that they could not pay the salaries of the faculty due to delay in issuing funds. When he tried to convince them to issue certificates to students, the former minister said that they will be forced to close down the institutes if the government continued to ignore.

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Rao, who participated in a protest organised by students in Siddipet town over the delay in release of fee reimbursement, said that the BRS government led by K Chandrashekhar Rao had released the funds from time to time when the state was reeling under serious financial crisis during the Covid-19. He said that Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy’s ignorance had put the students at the risk of losing an academic year.

Due to the ignorance of the government, the former minister said that over 300 degree colleges were closed down including five colleges in Siddipet. Opposing the government’s move to merge polytechnic education in Skill University, he said that the students would lose many opportunities since the Skill University is being set up in PPP mode. Rao also warned that he would not tolerate if police behaved violently with the students whenever they organised protests.