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ABVP activists block road

Staff Correspondent

State urged to follow Kerala model on fee structure for professional courses

OPPOSITION TO FEE HIKE: ABVP activists blocking the roads at Ambedkar Circle in protest against the Government for increasing the fees for professional courses, in Mangalore on Tuesday.

MANGALORE: Activists of the Akhila Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) blocked the roads at Ambedkar Circle here for sometime to protest against the State Government for increasing fee for professional courses this year.

Although the ABVP had called for college bandh it evoked poor response.

A group of students drawn from different colleges participated in the roadblock.

Meanwhile in a release, ABVP district convener Harish Poonja said the Government had ignored a majority of students who belonged to middle class families in the State while deciding fee for medical, dental and engineering courses.

Mr. Poonja said the ABVP had appealed to the Government to implement fee structure affordable to students from middle class families.

He said the Government could emulate the Kerala model in deciding the fee structure.

In Kerala, the Government had reserved 30 per cent of seats to managements.

In this, 15 per cent had been fixed for Non-Resident Indian (NRI) students and the remaining 15 per cent seats were management seats.

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