Andhra Pradesh government urged US to set up a counselling centre for the benefit of Indian students who are seeking admission in US universities.

The request is made in the backdrop of large scale deportation of Indian students from San Francisco last week creating wide spread resentment from the law makers and parents of the students. Incidentally many of the students are from Andhra Pradesh.

Citing the case, Andhra Pradesh government Special representative, New Delhi, Kambhampati Rama Mohana Rao urged Richard Rahul Verma, US Ambassador in India, to set up such a counselling centre at Vijayawada to guide students applying for higher education in US universities.

Rao also urged India’s External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj to take up necessary measures to guide the students properly when seeking admission into foreign universities.

Rama Mohana Rao wrote two separate letters to both Richard Rahul Verma and Sushma Swaraj urging them to take measures to guide Indian students going abroad for higher education.

In his letter to US Ambassador Verma, Rao said every year hundreds of students from AP apply for admission in US universities for pursuing their higher education and most of them are from rural and poor background. They are being cheated by education consultancies by sending them to universities whose credentials are suspect, he pointed out.

“We have seen the case of Tri-valley university earlier and in the last fortnight, many Telugu-speaking students with valid US student visas were detained, questioned, their visas revoked and the students were deported back to India by US Immigration officials at San Francisco airport. All these students had valid admission into Silicon Valley University, San Jose and Northwestern Polytechnic University, Fremont,” he said.

“All these students are traumatized as their academic year is spoilt and their future is put in jeopardy,” Rao further added.