UGC recovers INR 30 crore from universities for refund of fees for cancelled or migrated admissions

The UGC on its official Twitter handle shared that, "UGC has recovered nearly Rs. 30crore from universities across the country, including around Rs 17 crore from DU, for refund of fees for cancelled or migrated admissions during the 2022-23 academic session. Recovered amount is being disbursed to 14,443 students." “A large number of students come from economically weaker backgrounds. They should have the freedom to take admission in a better university, but they may not have the economic means to do so unless they get a refund from the university they had previously taken admission from,” Kumar said.

UGC recovered INR 30 crore from universities for refund of fees for cancelled or migrated admissions

University Grants Commission (UGC) Chairperson M Jagadesh Kumar has said that the commission has recovered nearly INR 30 crore from the varsities across the country. From the total amount collected, the Delhi University has paid INR 17 crore for refund of fees for cancelled or migrated admission during the academic session 2022-23.

The UGC on its official Twitter handle shared that, "UGC has recovered nearly Rs. 30crore from universities across the country, including around Rs 17 crore from DU, for refund of fees for cancelled or migrated admissions during the 2022-23 academic session. Recovered amount is being disbursed to 14,443 students."

“A large number of students come from economically weaker backgrounds. They should have the freedom to take admission in a better university, but they may not have the economic means to do so unless they get a refund from the university they had previously taken admission from,” Kumar said.

“We get a large number of complaints from students and based on that we talk to the universities and ensure the amount is refunded. Of course, there are many universities which refund the fees on their own as per the University Grants Commission (UGC) guidelines, but we have to intervene in case of several universities and hence, an amount of Rs 12.14 crore has been refunded to 832 students who took admission in central, state, private or deemed universities,” he added.

It must be noted that the higher education regulator had earlier made it compulsory for the universities to pay full fees, including all charges, to refund with zero cancellation charges for cancellations or migrations up to October 31, 2022. After that date and until December 31, 2022, institutions were allowed to deduct no more than Rs 1,000 as processing fee.

“DU has successfully reimbursed 13,611 students that is a sum of Rs 16.95 crore. Hence, the UGC has recovered a total of Rs 29.10 crore of 14,443 students,” he said.

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