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The Federation of Associations of Telangana Higher Institutions (FATHI) connected Sunday convened an exigency wide assemblage gathering to sermon the fiscal distress faced by backstage colleges crossed the State owed to the prolonged hold successful interest reimbursement payments.
After elaborate deliberations, the federation unanimously decided to springiness the Telangana authorities a deadline of November 1 to fulfil 4 large demands, failing which each backstage higher acquisition institutions successful the State volition observe a bandh from November 3.
The archetypal request concerns the contiguous merchandise of ₹900 crore successful pending interest reimbursement dues. FATHI noted that retired of the ₹1,200 crore promised by the authorities for disbursal earlier Dasara and Deepavali, lone ₹300 crore had been released truthful far. The remaining amount, it said, indispensable beryllium cleared by November 1.
The 2nd request is for a defined roadmap to wide each outstanding dues up to the 2024–25 world year, estimated astatine astir ₹9,000 crore, by March 31, 2026. The 3rd calls for a time-bound program to guarantee that dues for the existent world twelvemonth (2025–26) are afloat paid by June 30, 2026.
Additionally, FATHI urged the authorities to contented guidelines and No Objection Certificates (NoCs) for AICTE-approved caller courses, which person been pending for respective months. The federation argued that the delays person hampered institutions from applying for these courses for the upcoming world year.
In its resolution, FATHI appealed to Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy and Deputy Chief Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka to instrumentality urgent cognisance of the crisis, stressing that the fiscal strain threatens the endurance of thousands of backstage colleges, their faculty, unit and students crossed Telangana.
