The administration has given some relief to the students fees at Jawaharlal Nehru University on Wednesday, but the students' protest continues. The students started protesting at the administrative building even before the JNU administration's statement was released. Students gathered in the campus late in the evening and started protesting. They kept demanding to restore the old fees. The students rejected the hostel manual and revised fees taken in the Executive Council.
On Wednesday evening, the JNU administration announced some relief to the students on the matter of increased fees. JNU Students Union Vice President Saket Moon says that the decision taken by JNU is not acceptable to us. Today's situation has not been created, it has been created. In the system that is going on, 40 percent of the students may have to leave their studies. JNU alumni association president N Sai Bala ji says that JNU administration has not given relief to the students. The relief that is being exaggerated is minor. The administration should apply the old fees in JNU. Such a decision would result in poor students dropping out of campus education.
The students claimed that their protest would continue. The students said that even in the changes that have taken place, there has been no discussion about this with JNU students. JNUSU has issued a statement saying that there are unconfirmed reports on the issue of fee hike that the so-called major roll back has occurred only in room rent. Our issue is not only with the room rent, but the service charge of Rs 1700, water and electricity charges which was zero has been increased. JNUSU said that the Secretary of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, while announcing the so-called roll back, advised us to go back to the classrooms. But we are not ready for this.
