Hyderabad, May 2 -- Civil society organisations, NGOs, social activists, community leaders and academicians have written to Congress leaders, including Rahul Gandhi, Mallikarjun Kharge, Telangana chief minister Revanth Reddy, All India Majlis e Ittehad ul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi and Meenakshi Natarajan, urging immediate intervention over a developing crisis linked to post-matric scholarships in Telangana.

In the letter, the signatories flagged "grave concern" over the situation affecting lakhs of poor and marginalised students who depend on the Post-Matric Scholarship under the Fee Reimbursement Scheme to pursue higher education.

They pointed to recent proceedings before the Telangana High Court, statin...