From Our Correspondent
TURA: The decision by the management of Tikrikilla College to raise fees to an all time high along with the inclusion of a new staff maintenance fee has been strongly protested by the institution’s students who are demanding a roll back.
The Tikrikilla College Students’ Union has objected to the inclusion of a ‘staff maintenance fee’ amounting to six hundred rupees which each student is to pay annually.
The college has also raised its annual development fee from Rs 400 in 2012 to Rs 1000 this year, a steep rise which has been strongly objected by the students.
The students had vented their unhappiness against the hike by holding a protest rally in Tikrikilla this week demanding a roll back of the annual fees and doing away of the staff maintenance fee.
“The college authorities need to be aware that most of the students are from poor and economically backward families of the region,” informed the college students union in a statement.
Meanwhile, the GSU unit of Tikrikilla has called for an early solution to the ongoing crisis between the college authorities and the students.
It has suggested that the State education department move for regularization of non-sanction posts in the college and upgrade the institute from its resent adhoc status to a deficit college which would lead to a drop in the college fees and help the poor students enrolled in the institution.