In the AP High Court on Friday, Justice Noushad Ali, declared that the amendment made to the statute by providing 4 per cent weightage marks to students from rural government schools while taking admissions into  Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies institutions were unsustainable.

The judge granted the order while dealing with a batch of writ petitions by some of the students questioning the non-inclusion of private aided schools.

It was the idea of the then Chief Minister late Shri Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, who requested in April 2007 to create IIITs in state.   He was dissatisfied with the opportunities available to the rural youth and wanted to set up at least three IIITs in the three regions of Andhra Pradesh which would ensure better opportunities for rural students. In March of 2008, the AP Government created RGUKT by an act of the Legislature as a full-fledged university which would initially admit roughly the top 1% of the rural students into the three residential campuses.