Note: this page previously covered Telangana and Andhra Pradesh together. The two states have separate boards, separate portals and completely different fee-regulation positions, so they are now covered separately. Andhra Pradesh has its own page.
Telangana is an unusual case: a large, fast-growing private school sector operating in a state that has, as of mid-2026, no dedicated statutory commission fixing school fees — and a draft bill that would create one. That combination decides what a school’s records system needs to be able to prove.
Two boards, two portals, one school
A Telangana school running to Class 12 answers to two separate authorities:
- Board of Secondary Education, Telangana — also functioning as the Directorate of Government Examinations, established in June 2014 after the state’s formation, at bse.telangana.gov.in. It conducts the SSC examination.
- The intermediate board — a distinct authority for Classes 11 and 12, at tgbie.cgg.gov.in.
This is not a cosmetic split. Candidate registration, subject codes, examination calendars and result formats come from two different systems, on two different schedules. Schools with a junior college attached routinely end up with two parallel student registers because their software was designed around one board.
What to look for: a single student master that carries a student across the Class 10 to Class 11 boundary without re-enrolment, and exam records structured per examination rather than per academic year.
Why the board’s abbreviation changed
Telangana dropped the “State” element from the naming of its institutions, so what was written TSBIE — Telangana State Board of Intermediate Education — is now TGBIE, and the two-letter state prefix moved from TS to TG. The board’s functions did not change.
This matters mainly because older documents, templates and third-party integrations still carry the old abbreviation. If your school’s letterheads, report card templates or examination correspondence still say TS, that is a small housekeeping job worth doing once rather than piecemeal. Where a system hard-codes board names into report card templates, it becomes a vendor ticket instead; templates that are editable by the school are worth more than they look.
Telangana still has no statutory school fee regulator
There is an Admission and Fee Regulatory Committee in Telangana, but its remit is professional and higher education, not schools. For school fees, the position through mid-2026 has been governed by executive direction and litigation rather than a standing tribunal.
That is in the process of changing. The Telangana Education Commission submitted a draft Telangana Private Unaided School Fee Regulatory and Monitoring Commission Bill in 2025, proposing:
- a statutory commission headed by a retired Supreme Court or High Court judge, with academics, chartered accountants and school management representatives as members
- district-level fee regulatory committees headed by the Collector
- a ceiling on annual fee increases
- coverage of all private unaided institutions from pre-school to Class 12, including CBSE, ICSE and IB schools
A cabinet sub-committee has been reviewing the proposals, and as of May 2026 the bill was reported to be at cabinet stage ahead of the 2026-27 academic year. Parents’ associations in Hyderabad have pressed hard for it. Nothing here should be read as a settled legal position — check the current status before relying on any figure.
What a fee commission would require from your records
The right way to prepare is not to guess the cap. It is to be able to answer the questions any such commission asks, which are the same questions Tamil Nadu’s committee has asked for fifteen years:
- What did you charge, under which head, to which student?
- What did you actually collect, and when?
- What did you reduce, for whom, and on whose authority?
- What are your staff salary and infrastructure costs, which is what a fee determination is measured against?
A school that keeps one combined “annual fee” number cannot answer any of these without a manual reconstruction. A school with separated fee heads, a per-student ledger and an approval trail on concessions can answer all four from a report.
EdunodeX keeps tuition, transport, hostel and examination as separate heads on a single per-student ledger, records concessions as concessions with an approval gate above a configurable threshold, keeps waivers and write-offs distinct from discounts, and issues receipt numbers from a database sequence so two counters cannot produce the same number. Payroll and vendor expenses sit in the same system, which is where the cost side of a fee justification comes from.
School fees themselves remain exempt from GST for recognised pre-school to higher-secondary institutions under Entry 66 of Notification 12/2017-Central Tax (Rate) — tuition, admission, examination, hostel and transport.
Telugu parent communication without a Telugu interface
The honest position, because this is where vendors routinely overstate:
The EdunodeX staff interface does not ship in Telugu. It ships in English, Hindi, Kannada and Tamil, set per school. A Telangana school’s office staff will work in English.
Parent-facing communication does handle Telugu. The WhatsApp assistant replies to a parent in the language the parent wrote in, Telugu included, and the in-app AI assistant offers Telugu among its reply languages. In both cases the facts — fee amounts, due dates, marks, attendance percentages, names — are computed in code and passed through unchanged; only the wording is localised. If the model is unavailable, the reply falls back to English rather than being dropped.
If a vendor claims a complete Telugu interface, ask them to log in and show you the fee collection screen and the report card editor, not the login page.
How EdunodeX handles a Telangana school
One student record from enquiry through admission to transfer certificate, with document OCR at admission behind an explicit consent step. A unified fee ledger with the school’s own Razorpay or Cashfree account, so parent payments settle into the school’s bank account rather than a vendor’s. Daily and period-wise attendance with teachers restricted server-side to their assigned classes. Transport with routes, stops, vehicles and boarding records. HR and payroll. Timetabling. A compliance rules engine with scheduled re-evaluation and UDISE+ export.
Each school gets its own isolated database schema and its own subdomain, which matters for the multi-campus trusts common in and around Hyderabad — campuses do not share tables.
Telangana retains the no-detention position through the elementary stage; promotion logic configured for a state that detains at Class 5 will be wrong here.