Telangana and Andhra Pradesh set for big fee fight
AP government has decided to go to court to protect the 'nativity' of Seemandhra people
By : m. roushan ali
Update: 2014-07-18 02:31 GMT
Hyderabad: Chief Ministers K. Chandrasekhar Rao and N. Chandrababu Naidu are headed for a legal war over the “local status” of Seemandhra people, particularly students living in Greater Hyderabad and other parts of Telangana.
The contentious fee reimbursement has become a secondary issue after the Telangana Chief Minister announced that 1956 would be the cut-off year for students to be recognised as locals and be eligible for fee reimbursement or Financial Assistance to Students of Telangana (FAST) scheme, as it is known now.
The Andhra Pradesh government has decided to go to court to protect the “nativity” or “local status” of Seemandhra people, particularly students, living in Hyderabad.
The Andhra Pradesh government fears that Mr Chandrasekhar Rao will not stop at treating Seemandhra people as non-locals only for the purpose of fee reimbursement.
Though Mr Rao said that the 1956 cut-off date would be confined to only the fee reimbursement issue, Andhra Pradesh human resource development (education) minister Ganta Srinivasa Rao, on Thursday said that in future the non-local tag may be extended for jobs and ultimately Seemandhra people may be asked to leave the city.