Polytechnics under YISU? Students detained
BRSV protests Congress plan to fold polytechnic colleges into the skills ‘ecosystem’; police pick them up, paperwork still missing.
The protest was detained; the implementation details remain pending.
BRSV staged a protest at Masab Tank Polytechnic College on Thursday against the Congress government’s move to bring Telangana’s polytechnic colleges under Young India Skills University (YISU). Police detained the protesters and shifted them to Asif Nagar police station, according to a report that also carried the BRS’s post confirming the pickup.
The plan is not a rumour — the state’s own September 21, 2024 press note said officials were told to finalise modalities to bring ITIs, Advanced Training Centres and polytechnic colleges under YISU’s purview. YISU describes itself as a statutory university established on August 1, 2024 under a PPP Act, built around “industry-led” training. Those are the documents; the implementation rules have not been published.
BRSV state president Gellu Srinivas Yadav alleges the arrangement — packaged with the SHAKTI rejig — will weaken polytechnic education and even hit fee reimbursement. Those are political charges; no order or budget line making that change has been released, and the much-cited G.O. Ms. No. 97 has not been produced in the record we could locate. A secondary report says the Labour department was renamed and the skills apparatus clustered under it in June 2026, but the primary order is still not on the table.
So the Congress government has managed the easy part — detaining student leaders — while leaving the hard part — telling polytechnic students exactly what changes, and on what legal basis — unexplained.