Indira Gandhi University hikes BEd exam fee, private colleges upset

Ravinder Saini

Tribune News Service

Rewari, November 29

Indira Gandhi University (IGU) has hiked exam fee up to 70 per cent for the Bachelor of Education (BEd) course being run by the self-financing colleges in Rewari and Mahendragarh districts. Earlier, the fee was Rs 1,000 per student for all colleges, but it has now been enhanced to Rs 1,700 per student only for private colleges.

Significantly, no change has been made in the exam fee charged by the government and government-aided colleges for the course. Upset over the development, the self-financing colleges said the fee hike would burden the students. Even the difference in the exam fee for government and private colleges was also not justified, they said.

Panel recommended fee hike

The hike had been made following the suggestions of a committee formed to revise the fee structure for various courses. —Suresh Dhanerwal, controller of examination

“The IGU is the only university in the state, which will charge 70 per cent higher exam fee from the BEd students of private colleges than the government and government-aided ones whereas the exam fee for the course is same for all colleges in other universities of the state. We have urged the IGU authorities to withdraw the hike, otherwise we will have no other option but to move a court,” said Satish Khola, president, Haryana Self Finance Private College Association, adding that the IGU was already charging higher exam fee than other universities in the state.

He said the decision would adversely affect several thousand students enrolled in both — previous and final year of BEd course being run by 70 private colleges of Rewari and Mahendragarh district.