Despite being among the top rankers in the engineering stream of the Telangana Engineering, Agriculture and Pharmacy Common Entrance Test (TG EAPCET), many students are still deprived of their full fee reimbursement as the government is making only part-payments of the tuition fee.City & Local Guides
The JNTU-Hyderabad College of Engineering, Kukatpally students who joined the BTech programmes in 2024 recently received a jolt when they realised that the government has only been sanctioning them Rs. 35,000 against paying the entire course fee of Rs. 1 lakh every academic year.
As per the rules, students who secure ranks below 10,000 in the TG EAPCET, are extended full fee reimbursement by the State government irrespective of their community, provided they submit an income certificate. While SCs, STs and Minorities get full fee reimbursement irrespective of their ranks, students belonging to OC and BC communities are being given only Rs. 35,000, which is a base fee fixed for the engineering courses, and the remaining fee has to be borne by them.South Asians & Diaspora
These rules are not being implemented for TG EAPCET 2024 toppers. For example, B Neelendra, a student who secured rank 4,037 and admission in BTech CSE (AI and ML) at JNTU-Hyderabad College of Engineering Kukatpally, has been sanctioned Rs. 35,000 from September 1, 2024 to March 31, 2025 and the same amount has been sanctioned for June 1, 2025 to March 31, 2026, against Rs. 2 lakh for two years.
