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Counselling at Cusat disrupted

By Our Staff Reporter

KOCHI, JULY 22. Counselling for admission to the various post-graduate programmes of the Cochin University of Science and Technology (Cusat) was disrupted today following a dharna staged by the Students Federation of India (SFI) activists demanding the withdrawal of fee hike for B.Tech. Ship Technology, Polymer Science and MCA programmes.

The SFI activists who staged a march on the campus broke a police cordon set up in front of the university guest house where the counselling was in progress. Students who entered the guest house blocked the entrance of the counselling hall. Counselling was stopped for over two hours following the dharna. Only three candidates were admitted to the MCA programme before the blockade.

Assurance given

The monitoring committee for counselling comprising the Syndicate members, Lopez Mathew, K.A. Zakkariya and the university Registrar, A. Aravindakshan, later, held talks with representatives of students to resolve the deadlock. The two-hour dharna was called off after the students got an assurance from the committee members that status quo would be maintained in the fee structure for the said programmes. The university had recently hiked the semester fee for these programmes from Rs. 2,270 to Rs. 8,000.

Mr. Mathew said the university would collect only Rs. 2, 270 per semester from students getting admission to the regular seats of the MCA programme.

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