After Osmania University proposed fee hike for its engineering and postgraduate courses, many students are opposing it. The students have warned the authorities that they will resort to bandh if the hike is not withdrawn. University officials claim that this hike is just an improvement as the fee has not been increased for the last 15 years. The increased fee, claims administration, will provide infrastructure to the students and the salaries of the faculties for self-financing courses have been doubled.
As per reports, the revised fee for AI Engineering is Rs 1.20 lakh; Mining Engineering up to Rs 1 lakh, regular engineering fees increased from Rs 18,000 to Rs 35,000 and for self finance courses in science now up to Rs 75,000. MA in Arts and Social Sciences has been increased from Rs 2,800 to Rs 14,000 and for self-finance courses, it is now Rs 21,000 from Rs 3,800. The fee for MSc course has been increased from Rs 20,490 to Rs 3,800 and for M.Com to Rs. 30,000 and MBA to Rs. 35,000.
The students claim that the fee hike, that too in the time of COVID-19, is unfair. In the students’ protest led by ABVP, around 300 students are demanding reduction in fees. However, the university administration assured that students from low-income background would be able to avail the same fee through fee reimbursement scheme.
Professor Ravinder meanwhile said that only a certain section of students is opposing the fee hike. “Some groups with vested interests are deliberately carrying out these protests, while genuine students have not asked a single question,” he told a leading media house.
Osmania University Police Station Inspector L Ramesh Naik said that the varsity’s chief security officer Ganpati Jadhav had lodged an FIR against eight members of the ABVP.
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