Amaravati, Dec 17 (TIWN) The Andhra Pradesh government set the ball rolling on Wednesday to crackdown on corporate intermediate colleges for criminally sitting on the certificates of the students, demanding fees.

On Wednesday, B. Rajsekhar, Principal Secretary, School Education Department, wrote to Director General of Police (DGP) Gautam Sawang to initiate action against such colleges.  "In this regard, the DGP, Vijayawada, has been requested to instruct the authorities concerned to initiate necessary action against the principals/managements of junior colleges who are withholding/possessing SSC (10th standard) certificates of students illegally and not issuing transfer certificates (TC), " wrote Rajsekhar.  The Principal Secretary highlighted that some junior college managements are not returning the students' SSC certificates, intermediate pass certificates and TCs for want of tuition fees and other frivolous reasons.