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By Asia Education Review Team , Tuesday, 29 August 2023

The Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister disburses Rs 680 crore to 9.3 lakh students under the fee refund program

  • YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, distributed Rs 680 crore under the Jagananna Vidya Devena fee reimbursement initiative at Nagari in Chittoor district on Monday. The money was deposited into the accounts of almost 8.4 lakh ladies, the moms of those 9.3 lakh pupils. "The program that is taking place today will change our children's future." "Poverty should not be a barrier to their children's higher education and future," Reddy stated during a public forum in Nagari. The Chief Minister announced that the state government will pay for qualifying students' higher education expenses, emphasizing that the most recent disbursement was for fee reimbursement. According to the chief minister, the initiative alone has given Rs 11,317 crore to lakhs of students over the last four years. He stated that every impoverished family should have a better life than yesterday and look forward to a brighter tomorrow than today, adding that the YSRCP administration has been implementing a slew of programs with this goal in mind. Meanwhile, Reddy mocked TDP chairman Chandrababu Naidu for attending President Droupadi Murmu's launching of a Rs 100 coin honoring former chairman Minister N T Rama Rao. He claimed that Naidu betrayed Rao by stealing the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) from him but then brazenly participated in the coin-revealing ceremony. He further stated that Naidu was to blame for the addition.