Hyderabad: The Telangana government will be filing an affidavit in the Supreme Court explaining the reasons why it cannot bear the fees of Andhra Pradesh students taking admissions in colleges in the state and why it had to fix 1956 as the cut-off year to determine nativity.

The Telangana government has already filed a petition in the apex court seeking extension till October for Eamcet counselling. The court has posted the case to August 3 after asking the AP government to file its counter on the issue after it impleaded in the case against postponement of Eamcet counselling.

The Telangana government will bring to the notice of the Supreme Court that out of the total beneficiaries of the fee reimbursement scheme in Telangana, while it was part of the undivided state, 60 per cent were locals and 40 per cent were Seemandhra students. The new state does not have sufficient financial resources to bear the fee burden of such a large number of Andhra Pradesh students.

In its affidavit, the Telangana government will highlight the large-scale irregularities in the fee reimbursement scheme that had taken place in the united state wherein thousands of crores of public money had been siphoned off. It is for this reason that it has scrapped the scheme and replaced it with FAST (Financial Assistance for Students of Telangana), with an aim of providing assistance only to Telangana students.

The affidavit has been drafted by the social welfare and law departments and approved by Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao.