Allahabad University students hold protest against alleged 400% fee hike, gets opposition parties support

It must be noted that the students have been staging protests for over a week now against the hike and have also demanded the revival of the student union. The protests also got intensified after many hostellers joined in and took out a march inside the campus.

Allahabad University students hold protest against alleged 400% fee hike, gets opposition parties support

The opposition parties in Uttar Pradesh have extended their support to the ongoing protests by students against the alleged 400 per cent hike at Allahabad University. While lenting their support, the All India Congress Committee (AICC) General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra referred to the hike as an anti-youth move of the BJP government, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav said the protests were a symbol of hopelessness from the BJP government.

It must be noted that the students have been staging protests for over a week now against the hike and have also demanded the revival of the student union. The protests also got intensified after many hostellers joined in and took out a march inside the campus.

Meanwhile, Allahabad University has announced that the fees have been hiked after 110 years since the inception of the varsity in 1922– the university’s Executive Council had approved the fee hike for different courses about a fortnight ago. The university said "the fee hike is the need of the hour considering the changes being brought in in accordance with the National Education Policy, under which more teachers have to be hired and new courses have to be started. None of the current students would be affected as the fee hike would only be applicable for new entrants from the 2022-23 academic year."

While speaking on the same, Allahabad University Public Relations Officer Jaya Kapoor told The Indian Express, “There are two important factors that we are trying to explain to students. First of all, the fee hike, which has been approved by the Executive Council, the highest body, after many long deliberations would not be applicable to any of the present students. It would be applicable to fresh entrants from the 2022-23 academic session.”

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