Ramchander on Fee Reimbursement 'Rs 15,000 Cr has to be Given to Students'

Telangana BJP president Ramchander Rao on Saturday demanded that the state government immediately clear the pending fee reimbursement dues of students, claiming that the outstanding amount has now reached around Rs 15,000 crore. 

Rao said the Telangana government had responded to the BJP’s ongoing agitation over the fee reimbursement issue and that Chief Minister Revanth Reddy had questioned why the BJP was raising the issue now and had not done so during the previous BRS government.

Responding to the criticism, Rao said the BJP had raised the issue even when the BRS was in power and maintained that the party had been demanding payment of the pending dues during the previous government



as well.

“The government of Telangana yesterday responded to the BJP’s ongoing agitation on the fee reimbursement issue. The Chief Minister has stated that the BJP is doing this agitation now, but earlier they did not do it during the BRS government,” Rao said.

He said the BJP had demanded fee reimbursement during the BRS regime because more than Rs 5,000 crore had accumulated as dues during the last two years of that government.

According to Rao, the pending amount increased further after the Congress government came to power.

He claimed that another Rs 10,000 crore is now due, taking the total outstanding amount to around Rs 15,000 crore.