hyderabad the city centric growth of the education sector over the last five decades in the state will now put students from seemandhra at a disadvantage experts said following the union cabinet setting in motion the process of bifurcation of the state almost all nationally acclaimed educational institutions in the state are located in hyderabad and other telangana districts however over 45 per cent of students in these institutes are from the coastal andhra and rayalaseema regions experts said a quick look at the distribution of educational institutions reveals a skewed development plan for instance all three central universities university of hyderabad english and foreign languages university and maulana azad national urdu university are located in hyderabad interestingly as local reservations are not allowed in these institutes up to 50 of telugu speaking students are estimated to be from seemandhra moreover national technological institutes like indian institute of technologyhyderabad international institute of information technology iiithyderabad and national institute of technology nitwarangal are located in telangana the nalsar law university and indian school of business are also located on the outskirts of hyderabad private institutes like symbiosis and tata institute of social sciences are also based in the city over half of the student population which comes to national institutes in hyderabad is from andhra region even as rayalaseema students account for over 20 per cent of the student population the central government will have to look at this disparity and set up institutions in the region during the next few years said m tarakeswar an educationist from the city the presence of a huge chunk of students from seemandhra in the citys institutes means there is demand for higher education in these regions but the number of seats available is nil explained an official of the andhra pradesh state council of higher education in the next leg of the bifurcation process policy makers from the two regions will have to lobby for an equal share of national institutes officials said t the task at hand for policy makers would be to set up a state council of higher education for seemandhra which will chalk out a master plan for development of education in the 13 districts students from the region aspiring to get higher education should not suffer in the coming years said s anant sampangi an educationistlions share for telangana all three central universities in the state university of hyderabad english and foreign languages university and maulana azad national urdu university are in hyderabad national technological institutes like iit iiit and nit are in telangana nalsar law university indian school of business as well as private institutes like symbiosis and tiss are also located on the outskirts of hyderabad