Panjab University students demand fee waiver

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, April 12

PUCSC president Chetan Chaudhary has asked the university authorities to waive hostel fee of students for the month of June and to provide them with seed money for purchasing things of daily use.

He said though the general trend in the university’s hostels was to collect fee till May, this year due to the Covid outbreak, many students were stuck in hostels and were not able to unite with their families.

Chaudhary had requested the Dean, Students Welfare (DSW), yesterday to adjust the fee of all professional courses in the university and said he was assured that a decision regarding this would be taken after the lockdown was lifted. Chetan has also requested the authorities for letting the students stay in hostels free of cost for the month of June.

Nikhil Narmeta from UIET, who was contesting for the post of president from the NSUI, said, “We all are in a tough situation where what all we can do is just to sit at home, but this situation can’t be same after lockdown as we will be asked to pay our fee for the next semester. But why should we pay the fee for the next semester when we have already paid for this semester? We paid for six months, of which we have attended the varsity only for a little more than one month,” he said.

A PU official said, “Right now, we haven’t taken any decision on this matter and will decide when the time is ripe.”