Andhra Pradesh Private Engineering Colleges Management Association (APECMA) called on the State Government to speed up the release of waiting fees for the academic years 2024–25, 2023–24 and earlier.
In a statement issued on Thursday (May 22), after discussing the problem at the meeting, the members of the Association emphasized the urgent need for financial support to maintain the functioning of private engineering institutions facing serious fiscal anxiety.
They said three installments from the academic year 2023–24 and two of the years 2024–25 were still released. In addition, considerable arrears concerning the reimbursement of postgraduate course from previous years remained excellent. Increasing concerns about the fragile condition of institutions, which were forced to borrow funds for paying faculties and employees, stated that in several cases access to loans has also become limited, which seriously influenced wages and operation. The end of the interest burden on these loans was impaired by the financial challenges facing universities.
They said it was necessary to immediately release the waiting compensation to prevent further deterioration of quality and provision of education.
The Association also emphasized the need to complete the structure of engineering courses for the upcoming academic year 2025–26. They point out that the structures of fees for the previous two academic years have been completed in accordance with the interim instructions issued by the High Court and used only for those specific years, stating that due to the political decisions of the previous administration, high damage occurred in the process of determining fees.
They said that since the final court was still waiting and the academic year 2025–26 was approaching rapidly, the government should actively complete the fees structure to facilitate the early start of the admission process.
They alerted attention to the difference between engineering fees between technical fees in Andhra Pradesh and other states, and warned that an irrational or unsustainable frame of fees would endanger the quality of education, which would eventually affect both students and wider developmental objectives.
The members of the association repeated that high -quality technical education was an integral part of the performance of the State Government vision to create 20 lakh (2 million) job opportunities and urged the government to prefer engineering universities within key political initiatives.
Thursday’s meeting was attended by the President of the Association V. Vidya Sagar, Secretary General of P. Madhusudhan Rao, treasurer G. Satyanarayan and other representatives.
Published – May 22, 2025 20:50 is
