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Latest News |
| 30th
July 2010 / Times of India / Mumbai Edition |
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Engg students intensify stir against fee hike
Ahmedabad: Students from several engineering and pharmacy
colleges across the state have launched agitation against
fee hike imposed by the Fee Regulatory Committee (Technical).
The protest was sparked off by 25 to 35 per cent fee hike
in 40 colleges set up last year.
The protest turned violent at AD Patel Institute of Technology
in Vidyanagar, where the principal was beaten up so badly
by the students that he suffered fracture in his hand.
The agitation snowballed into a chain reaction with several
colleges across the state facing the heat. In Ahmedabad,
students staged a demonstration at Kesar Sal Engineering
College, which hiked the fee from earlier Rs 32,000 to
Rs 46,000.
“We have been asked to cough up the fee effective
from the last year, which comes to about Rs 60,000. It’s
an injustice and we’re determined to fight against
it. We forced the management to down the shutter on Thursday
and the college will remain closed on Friday as well,”
said an agitating student.
Similar agitation was also witnessed in Saurashtra where
students of four engineering colleges held demonstration,
forcing local MP Kuwarji Bawaliya to write a letter to
the committee to bring down the hike.
National Students’ Union of India (NSUI) has joined
the agitation, having given the bandh call for all colleges
across the state on Friday.
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