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Monday, June 30, 2008

Students angry at fee hikes

Warangal, June 29: The students are agitating across the district against the fee hike in engineering, MBA and MCA courses. They are criticising the government for neglecting the improvement of amenities at colleges and going for the hike in fee structure for admissions into professional courses. The government had increased the convenor quota entry fee from 27,500 to Rs 30,200 for the engineering courses, while the MBA and MCA course fee was hiked from Rs 66,600 to Rs 73,100.
The student organisations have demanded that the government roll back the decision. "Many corporate colleges lack basic amenities and they continue to collect huge amounts of money. Till now no such college was penalised and no college’s recognition was cancelled. The government is showing utter indifference in this regard," alleges Syed Wali Ullah Khadri, All India Students Federation district president.
Mr Khadri said that his organisation was agitating against the government’s decision to hike the fee in professional colleges. Similarly, the so-called corporate colleges in the city were collecting heavy donations from the parents for admissions into their schools. A school at Naimnagar is charging Rs 8,000 per each admission as donation, while another at Nakkalagutta is charging Rs 7,000 from each student.
(Source : DC)

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