CCSAP Report - Ministry of Home Affairs

Osmania University was established in 1918 with Urdu as the medium of
instruction in all its colleges (Professional and Non-Professional) until 1948 and
all its colleges were located in the Hyderabad city. There was only one
intermediate college outside of Hyderabad which existed at Warangal town and
which also had Urdu as the medium of instruction.
3.5.04 Given the disparity in institutions of higher education in the two
regions at the time of merger, therefore, it was feared that the people of Andhra,
with their higher educational standards would have an unfair advantage in filling
government and educational jobs. 5 Against this background, the Gentlemen‟s
Agreement provided for the following safeguards relating to education (and
employment):
Existing educational facilities were to be reserved for students from the
Telangana region and every effort was to be made to improve educational
facilities in the region
Recruitment to the civil service and other areas of government
employment such as education and medicine was to be proportional
The use of Urdu was to continue in the administration and the judiciary for
five years
As detailed in the first chapter of this report, dissatisfaction of Telanganites with
the way the safeguards under Gentlemen‟s Agreement were implemented led to
the agitation for Mulki rules in 1969 and subsequent developments to Jai Andhra
Movement in 1973, giving rise to various agreements and formulae over time.
Here the safeguards relating to education under different agreements/formulae
are recapitulated:
5 While debating the merger of Andhra and Telangana, the SRC stated: “One of the principle causes of opposition to
Vishalandhra also seems to be the apprehension felt by the educationally backward people of Telangana that they may be
swamped and exploited by the more advanced people of coastal area. In the Telangana districts outside the city of
Hyderabad, education is woefully backward. The result is that a lower qualification than in Andhra is accepted for public
services, The real fear of the people of Telangana is that if they join Andhra, they will be unequally placed in relation to
the people of Andhra.” (Para 378, p105)
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