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MBBS students of SGRR private medical college have been sitting in protest since March 27 over the 400 percent fee hike by the university administration. Earlier they were paying Rs five lakh per annum but now they have been told to pay Rs 19.76 lakh per annum by the management. Although chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat has expressed helplessness because it will dissuade investors. He said that as private investor invests Rs 500-600 crore for creating infrastructure so they have full right to increase their fee.
The private college decision came after the Uttarakhand government decided to allow managements of private colleges to decide fee for MBBS and MD courses. Earlier, a committee under a retired judge, constituted by the government, was given the task of setting the fee structure for various courses in three medical colleges
Significantly, on Monday the SGRR College hiked the fee five times for the various courses which angered the students who then decided to launch a sit-in against the college management.
Ironically they have increased their fee on March 27, 2018 but it would be applicable since 2016-17. As they had forced the students to submit an affidavit having mentioned that if college increases fee then they will pay accordingly and even if they want to leave the course then they will leave college after paying fee of four years.
Talking to dainiknation Jaideep, an MBBS students of the college, said that they had signed the affidavit with an view that they might increase the fee by Rs 50000 to Rs one lakh but they have increased 400 percent. Now they have stuck in catch-22, which means neither you leave nor you engulf.
