Students oppose Pondy univ asking full semester fees

Students oppose Pondy univ asking full semester fees

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Puducherry:21.08.2021

Students and parents have criticised Pondicherry University’s direction asking that they pay full semester fees despite the continuing Covid-19 pandemic, calling the order “baseless and insensitive.”

They cited a Madras high court ruling asking private schools to collect only 75% of fees, in two instalments, as many people had lost their livelihood due to the pandemic and wondered how a public educational institution could force students to pay the entire semester fees. They also pointed out that a central university was insisting on them paying full fees when they won’t be using sports, library and computer facilities. “We have no access to classrooms or labs and students are at their homes. Why should the students currently pay for unused facilities,” asked students council president Parichay Yadav and secretary V Kuralanban in a joint statement.