Hyderabad, July 12 -- Telangana high court on Friday rejected the plea for an interim direction to the state government to allow private engineering colleges to increase the fees of various engineering courses with effect from the academic year 2025-26, people familiar with the matter said.

The plea was filed on Thursday by 11 private engineering colleges in the state.

The bench headed by justice K Lakshman, however, directed the Telangana admission and fee regulatory committee (TAFRC) to look into the representations of the concerned colleges, finalise the fee structure and submit the recommendations to the government within six weeks.

"The final decision on fee hike in the private engineering colleges rests with the state government,...