IIT Delhi: Students Protest Against 100% Fee Hike for M.Tech Courses

New Delhi: Students of Indian Institute of Technology are staging a silent sit-in protest at IIT Delhi against the 100% Fee Hike for M.Tech Courses.

The Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt of India, has issued a clarification regarding the news relating to the hike in the fee of M. Tech programme in IITs. pic.twitter.com/zYUpylz8hM
— IIT Delhi (@iitdelhi) September 29, 2019

To support the protest at IIT Delhi, a social media platform, Twitter is getting flooded with tweets from several students and eminent personalities in support of the ongoing protest.

This year, IIT Bombay, Guwahati, Mandi, Gandhinagar have announced fee hikes in the 20%-50% range for new entrants and enrolled students. Students’ collective, Ambedkar Periyar Phule Study Circle (APPSC) IIT Bombay along with many other students have expressed solidarity with the ongoing protest.

The fees at @iitdelhi has been hiked similar to the fee hike in @iitbombay. We declare our solidarity with the protesting students of IIT Delhi against this massive fee hike and privatisation of public educational institutions #iitfeehike #iitdstudentsagainstfeehike https://t.co/SFrelsMLWx
— IIT Bombay Students Against Fee Hike (@iitbfeehike) August 31, 2022

We declare solidarity to the students protesting against the massive fee hike in @iitdelhi https://t.co/5mIZTzx13n
— APPSC IIT Bombay (@AppscIITb) August 31, 2022

The fee hike, among other decisions, was taken last week by the Council of IITs in a meeting chaired by Human Resource Development Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank.

The total academic fee for full-time MTech Courses students being admitted this semester (2022-2023) has been hiked by 100% to INR 53,100 (excluding hostel fees), earlier, the fee was INR 26,450. Within this amount, the 'tuition fee' has been hiked by 150% from INR 10,000 to Rs 25,000 for one semester.

The tuition fee for full-time PhD students admitted this semester has been hiked by 64% from INR 20,150 to INR 30,850 (inclusive of hostel seat rent).

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