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Special fee questioned

Staff Correspondent

PUCL issues notice to University of Mysore asking it to refund fee

MYSORE: Taking exception to the special fee being imposed on non-Karnataka students by the University of Mysore, the Peoples' Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), Wayanad District Committee in Kerala, has sent a notice to the university registrar to withdraw it.

In a legal notice served on the university, presidentof PUCL Wayanad Stephen Mathew has stated that educational institutions under the University of Mysore and colleges affiliated to it for different under graduate and postgraduate courses have been charging non-Karnataka students Rs. 3,300 as special fee. This is not the case with students hailing from Karnataka, the notice has said.

PUCL has said that the practice of collecting special fee from students seeking admission from outside a State does not exist in other universities in Karnataka or elsewhere. The other universities in Karnataka, including Mangalore and Bangalore, were not collecting special fee from non-Karnataka students.

Quoting the notification issued by the university, PUCL said special fee for students from outside Karnataka was being collected apart from the eligibility fee. A fact finding team of PUCL found that in similar circulars of previous yeas also, these fees were collected from non-Karnataka students and that the quantum has been increased by 10 per cent annually.

PUCL pointed out that the fact-finding team found that the eligibility fee charged in Karnataka was exorbitant when compared to that of other universities in the southern States. The notice said the special fee charge by University of Mysore for non-Karnataka students as also the eligibility fee was arbitrary, unwarranted and irrational. The collection of special fee, PUCL pointed out, was a violation of Article 15 (1) of the Constitution.

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