Telangana Rashtra Samithi president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, who is going all out to attract investors to the state, has received a stunning proposal from the biggest industrialist of the country – Mukhesh Ambani, the chairman of Reliance Industries Limited.
The proposal was mooted by Ambani during the recent visit of KCR’s son and IT minister K T Rama Rao to Mumbai.
The proposal is that Reliance would like to venture into education field in Telangana and wants to set up a massive educational institution in a huge campus.
It will provide education from kindergarten (KG) to post-graduation (PG) to thousands of students all in the same campus.
Needless to say, the Telangana government gave it a huge publicity as if it is a major manufacturing industry providing jobs to thousands of people of Telangana. But going by the conditions Ambani had put for setting up the institution, it is pretty evident that he wants to take the Telangana government for a ride.
For setting up the campus, the Reliance wants not less than 2,000-3,000 acres of land around Hyderabad or Ranga Reddy, at a very nominal rate. Secondly, it does not want any kind of interference from the government in admissions.
The government should not question the admission process of the institutions and insist on reservations. Thirdly, the government should not question the Reliance’s right to decide the fee it would collect from students from time to time. Fourthly, it should not have any control over syllabus or examinations.
For that, it wants the entire Telangana educational institutions act to be amended. So, it is clearly evident that the Reliance wants to make a big business out of education at the cost of the government. If it does not benefit the people of Telangana, what is the use of offering so many sops to Ambani?
Well, it remains to be seen whether KCR will agree to these conditions.
