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Gujarat engineering students make fee plea to justice Mehta

Engineering students of self-financed colleges approached Justice Akshay Mehta, chairman of the Fee Regulatory Committee (technical) on Saturday to demand a rollback of the fee hike.

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Engineering students of self-financed colleges approached Justice Akshay Mehta, chairman of the Fee Regulatory Committee (technical) on Saturday to demand a rollback of the fee hike.

The students with the backing of the National Students Union of India (NSUI) took out a silent rally from Polytechnic College in Panjarapol to Akshay Mehta Committee's office. As many as 150 engineering students participated in the rally. The students then met Justice Mehta to talk about the issue of hike in fee. The meeting between Vishwanathsinh Vaghela, general secretary of NSUI, a few students' representatives and Justice Mehta lasted two hours. The meeting also saw some heated exchanges about the justification for the fee hike. To this, Justice Mehta said that the management of several colleges had come with their audit reports and annual expenditures. "They asked our permission to hike the fee to meet with the expenditure and we approved," he said.
Vaghela alleged that every year Rs3 lakh to Rs4 lakh are taken as donation from the students and no receipt for the same is issued to them.

"Bring a few such incidences to my notice and we will cancel the registration of the college," said Justice Mehta. Vaghela said that they will hire a lawyer to fight their case.

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