India, May 13 -- The Andhra Pradesh government on Monday ended the decade-long practice to earmark 15% seats in the state's professional, degree, and post-graduate colleges for students from Telangana and other states.

Monday's order, signed by secretary (higher education) Kona Sasidhar, implies that all seats in higher education and technical education colleges would be effectively reserved for students from Andhra Pradesh.

HT has reviewed the order.

The 15% reservation for non-locals was made under Section 95 of the Andhra Pradesh Reorganization Act, 2014, that required government and private institutions of higher education in the state to admit local and non-local students in the ratio of 85:15 for a period of 10 years from June 20...