hyderabad releasing the telangana state private universities establishment regulation act 2018 on monday the state government has cleared the final hurdle for private universities to start operations in the state the state has released a government order go ms no 17 to assign july 15 2019 as the date on which provisions of the said act shall be deemed to have come into effectunder the tspu act which was passed in march last year the state will allow universities to establish their campuses and centres subject to adherence to quality levels and satisfactory accreditation the act mandates reservation of 25 percent seats for candidates from telanganathe fee structure should be determined by each university through a fee fixation committee which will consist of members from board of management academics as well as external members once the proposal for establishment of a university is cleared by the committee it will allow varsities to develop educational programmes for diplomas degrees and postgraduate courses doctorate degrees and postdoctoral programmesparents and students however are of the opinion that such a move was unnecessary and could create more barriers for the economically weaker sections of the society they said that instead of entertaining the private ones the state should concentrate on strengthening government institutes and added that these universities could deprive economically backward classes from getting quality education telangana has 13 state universities 3 central varsities and 7 autonomous and deemed varsities many state universities are starving in terms of student strength private varsities may do business but they are not needed in the state said n narayana of telangana parents association