State limits SC, ST 'free education' plan
March 30, 2011
DC Correspondent
Hyderabad
March 29: In a major jolt to meritorious students from BC, SC, ST and
minority categories, the state government has decided to limit the
free corporate education scheme to 5,500 students from 8,000. The
government issued orders to this effect on Monday and also exempted
Hyderabad district from the scheme as it is an "urban district". While
majority of the students who availed the scheme were from BC
categories, only 20 per cent of the seats have been reserved for these
categories in the latest orders.
Under the scheme introduced by late Chief minister Y.S. Rajashekar
Reddy in 2008-09, the government bears the tuition fee of Rs 35,000
plus Rs 3,000 scholarship per annum for each student who scored over
400 marks in SSC exams to enable them to study Intermediate in
corporate colleges like Narayana, Sri Chaitanya etc for two years. The
scheme was a huge success since it helped students from weaker
sections to pursue intermediate in some of the top corporate colleges
free of costs and enabled them to appear for national-level
competitive exams like IIT-JEE, AIEEE, AFMC, JIPMER apart from Eamcet.
However, the scheme ran into rough weather last year after the
government issued a GO in haste scrapping the scheme in May 2010
citing 'financial constraints'. However, it immediately backtracked on
its orders after it encountered stiff resistance from various BC, SC
and ST unions. Around 24,000 students have been admitted under the
scheme during the last three years and the government had paid Rs 90
crore to the colleges as fee. The scheme achieved desired results with
majority of those students securing seats in engineering and medical
courses.
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