"Book Cases Against Bogus Colleges"

Briefing media persons at the Secretariat on Saturday, Social Welfare Minister Mukesh Goud stated that Chief Minister K Rosaiah has ordered the booking of cases against those managements which were not registered and yet collected money for the tuition fee reimbursement scheme.

Mukesh Goud said that 12,000 colleges had applied for registration earlier, and that later, only 9,000 colleges had come for registration. This means that around 3,000 colleges are apparently bogus, he said.

The minister said the government would identify these colleges and recover the money released to them. Asked to spell out the extent of amount given to these fraudulent colleges, Mukesh Goud replied that the government was yet to arrive at a figure.

The minister's rejoinder means that the state government had sanctioned huge amounts to these colleges for reimbursements of tuition fee without checking the genuine nature of the colleges and whether there were students on their rolls.

For 2010, Rs. 1,353 crore was disbursed to all the colleges and for 2011, an estimated budget of Rs. 2,012 crore towards reimbursement of tuition fee has been arrived at.

Stating that there were no arrears to be paid to BC Welfare hostels, the minister said that Rs. 20 crore has already been released to women's welfare hostels.

Courtesy: INN