India, Sept. 3 -- BRS working president KT Rama Rao received petitions from Mahatma Gandhi University students and Nalgonda Government Polytechnic College representatives on Thursday, as he stopped near the university on his way to a farmers' protest in Miryalaguda.

Polytechnic students used the meeting to press their opposition to GO 97, issued on July 3, which renamed the Labour, Employment, Training and Factories Department as SHAKTI and brought government polytechnic colleges under its restructuring. The order extends an earlier 2024 decision to place polytechnics, ITIs and Apprentice Training Centres under the Young India Skills University, a move the state government has described as an effort to align technical education with indu...