Hyderabad: The Admission and Fee Regulatory Committee is having its own bifurcation blues torn between the two states.
While higher education officials had sought a one year inclusion of the fee regulatory body in the Tenth Schedule of the Reorganisation Act, allowing it to continue as a single body catering to both states, the new governments are not too keen.
Telangana higher education officials argue that the committee has completed its work pertaining to the Telangana government and whatever work it has on its hands now, pertains to Andhra Pradesh.
“There is no logic in the Telangana government bearing expenditure for work related to Andhra Pradesh. Whatever major work AFRC had has been completed long back,” a senior State Council for Higher Education official said. The expenditure for joint state bodies has to be shared by both governments.
The fees for engineering colleges will not be revised for another year, at the least, while recommendations for the medical and dental courses have already been submitted by the AFRC to the state governments.
With this, the major mandate of the AFRC has been fulfilled.
Telangana CM K. Chandrasekhar Rao is learnt to have told higher education officials that the Telangana AFRC should be formed before July 2.
