Telangana: College students oppose government’s decision to raise fees, says report

NEW DELHI: Telangana government's decision to hike fees of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in state's universities has received opposition from various students, the Times of India reported.

The Telangana admission and fee regulatory panel is in a mood to increase fees for various UG and PG courses including professional programmes such as BTech and MBA from the academic year 2022-23. The fee will be fixed for the next three years, the report said.

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“People are finding it difficult to meet their basic needs. In such times, how can the government plan to enhance the fee structure? Already, we have spent a large amount of time in online classes wherein college infrastructure was barely used," a student of a private engineering college told TOI.

Members of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad also protested against the government's move, as per the report.

Earlier in September, the state government proposed a fee hike for BTech programmes to meet the maintenance of laboratories, annual increments and further developments. The government received flak from various students' organisations over its decision, as per reports.

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In March too, when the nation was coping with COVID-19 pandemic situation, Telangana Bhartiya Janta Party Yuva Morcha (BJYM) activists held a protest against fees hike of private junior colleges. They demanded that colleges should immediately pay the salaries of lecturers and faculties of the colleges which have been pending for the last 10 months. according to reports.

They alleged that colleges have increased the fees and not even paid the salary to their staffs. Around, 6000 lecturers were removed from the job during the lockdown, the reports said.