Even as the people are preparing to celebrate Deepawali festival, the students of the private Ayurveda colleges of the state continued their protest at the protest site near Parade ground on Saturday. The students are demanding that their colleges should refund their fees which was charged after an arbitrary and illegal hike. They also want that the order of Uttarakhand High Court (HC) on fee refund should be followed.
One agitating student said, “Government in the year 2015 had released a Government Order (GO) for increase in fees of the private Ayurveda Colleges. The GO was released without necessary recommendation of the fee fixation committee and was implemented from back date in gross violation of all norms.
On July 2018, the HC cancelled the GO and directed that the increased fee should be refunded within 15 days. The private colleges challenged this order but on October 9, 2018, a bench of HC upheld the earlier decision.
The administrators of these colleges are not following the order on fee refund.” He further added, “Some of the students are sitting on hunger strike but the authorities are paying no heed. We are determined to take our agitation to its logical conclusion.’’
