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Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By
Jun 19, 2019 05:54 PM IST

While the fee structure of most of the courses in Gargi College has been revised by ₹2500 to ₹3000, the fee for BA (Hons) Business Economics has gone up by as much as ₹14,000. The fee for the course was ₹26,875 last year. Now it is ₹41,220.

New Delhi: Several Delhi University (DU) colleges have revised their annual fee structure for undergraduate courses by at least 2,000 to 8,000 this year, the new bulletin shared by the University on its official website on Tuesday stated.

The Gargi College(Hindustan Times File)
The Gargi College(Hindustan Times File)

Authorities at most of these colleges cited “insufficient funds” as a reason for increasing the fee. Some said it was a “routine revision”. Hindustan Times had, on June 7, first reported about the fee revision plan.

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While the fee structure of most of the courses in Gargi College has been revised by 2500 to 3000, the fee for BA (Hons) Business Economics has gone up by as much as 14,000. The fee for the course was 26,875 last year. Now it is 41,220.

Promila Kumar, principal of the college, said, “The University has approved BA (Hons) in Business Economics as a self-finance course. We have to generate our own funds to pay salary to teachers besides other expenses. We are not getting any grant from the university for the course.”

The average hike in fee in Aryabhatta College, Bhaskaracharya College for Applied Sciences, Delhi College for Arts and Commerce, Deshbandhu College, Hindu College, Indraprastha College for Women, Miranda House, Motilal Nehru College and Ramjas College is between 1500 and 3500. For example, at Hindu College, the fee structure for many courses including BA (Hons) in English was 14,790 last year. It has been revised to 17,310. Meanwhile, at Ramjas College, the fee for several courses has been revised to 13,495 from last year’s 10,395.

Manoj Sinha, principal of Aryabhatta College, said the college has revised the under two heads – departmental activities and maintenance. “Being a science college, we need funds to maintain laboratories as well. We had revised the laboratory fee last year only before the beginning of the session. This year, we have had a nominal increase to meet the rising maintenance cost,” he said. At Aryabhatta College, fee for BSc (Hons) in Mathematics has been increased to 15,230 from last year’s 10,650.

Janaki Subramanyan, bursar at Miranda House, however, said they have not hiked fee for the upcoming session. “The fee was revised last year after the release of the bulletin. So the last year’s bulletin is reflecting the lesser amount. But this year’s fee is exactly the same as last year,” she said.

As per the new bulletin, in Ramanujan College and Institute of Home Economics (W), fee for many courses has been hiked by 8,000 from last year. Last year, the fee for courses such as BSc (Hons) in Home Science and Microbiology were 19,675. It has now been increased to 28,890.

In Janki Devi Memorial College (W) and Shaheed Rajguru College of Applied Sciences for Women (W) the revision varies between 4,000 and 5,000.

Rajesh Jha, member of the DU’s executive council (EC), said the EC members will demand a rollback of the fee hike. “We strongly demand the rollback of fee hike as it is very much against the higher education accessible to every section of the society. The drastic cut in UGC grants has brought such a situation. Just imagine what will happen when we will be forced to take loan from HEFA. The result will be students’ fees in lakhs to repay the loans,” he said.

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