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HRD Minister Nara Lokesh connected Friday instructed officials to framework guidelines for implementing Kalalaku Rekkalu (Wings to Dreams), a strategy to enactment miss students pursuing higher education, from the adjacent world year.
At a reappraisal gathering with elder officials of the Education and Skill Development Departments, the Minister said the strategy would widen fiscal assistance to miss students wishing to prosecute higher acquisition successful India oregon abroad. Officials informed him that 27,112 miss students from Andhra Pradesh were presently studying overseas, portion 88,196 were pursuing higher acquisition wrong the country. The gathering besides discussed modalities for implementing the overseas acquisition scheme.
Expressing superior interest implicit suicides successful authorities and backstage acquisition institutions crossed the State, Mr. Lokesh asked officials to suggest preventive measures. He announced the enactment of a five-member committee headed by Sri Padmavati Mahila University Vice-Chancellor Uma to code the issue. He besides directed officials to strictly travel Supreme Court guidelines, upgrade facilities successful backstage residential colleges, and initiate measures to trim world unit connected students. He warned that strict enactment would beryllium taken against backstage colleges operating without approvals.
The Minister besides reviewed proposals for permitting overseas and backstage universities to run successful the State. Officials said consultations were nether mode with Western Sydney University, James Cook University, the University of Newcastle, and the University of New South Wales for collaborations with State universities. Mr. Lokesh further asked officials to prioritise planetary grade programmes.
He said the authorities planned to make an EduCity successful Visakhapatnam, found a world-class aviation university, acceptable up an international-level flying schoolhouse connected the lines of the American Rider model, and make facilities for MRO, aviator crushed handling, and lawsuit services.
Fee reimbursement
In a abstracted gathering with leaders of pupil and younker associations, Mr. Lokesh assured them that steps were being taken to wide each pending interest reimbursement dues. He cautioned backstage assemblage managements against exerting unit connected students implicit interest payment. He said the TDP-led conjugation authorities had inherited interest reimbursement arrears amounting to ₹4,200 crore, which would beryllium cleared successful phases depending connected fiscal availability.
The Minister said pupil unions would beryllium provided a dedicated level to rise non-political issues aft organization moving hours. He besides assured enactment for anti-ragging and anti-drug campaigns taken up by pupil associations. A simplified strategy would beryllium introduced for issuing pupil autobus passes by linking them to AAPAR ID. He reiterated that governmental speeches would not beryllium permitted successful colleges and universities nether immoderate circumstances.
