"fee-reimbursement-arrears"

Demands immediate release of dues; says several degree colleges postponing examinations due to pending payment of fee

The university has deffered the undergraduate (non-professional) courses of semester II, IV, VI (regular) and I, III, V semesters (backlog) examinations, which were scheduled from April 21

Telangana Private Degree and PG Colleges Management Association Dr B Suryanarayana Reddy said despite the colleges repeated pleas for releasing the fee reimbursement, the government has not released the same

They also demanded pending fee reimbursement arrears and filling up of SC and ST backlog vacancies in teaching and non-teaching positions

Students from Sree Nidhi Institute of Science and Technology (SNIST), Ghatkesar on Wednesday protested against the management for withholding hall tickets of its BTech final year students due to Congress government's delay in releasing arrears related to fee reimbursement.

The association lamented the fee reimbursement arrears were not released for the last two academic years and stated that higher education has completely been neglected by the Congress government

After private degree and PG colleges, pharmacy colleges in the state have called for protest against inordinate delay in releasing the fee dues.

BRS working president KT Rama Rao demanded the immediate release of arrears amounting to over Rs.650 crore to private degree and PG college managements.

The managements of the private colleges offering intermediate, degree, engineering, pharmacy B.Ed, nursing, paramedical and PG programmes to form a joint action committee to take the protests forward.

The protesters who tried to reach the Assembly when budget session was underway wanted the Congress government to allocate 30 per cent of the State budget to the education sector.