Hyderabad: NSUI demands action against erring engineering colleges collecting excess fee

NSUI student activists urged JNTU-Hyderabad to act against private engineering colleges charging excess fees beyond the official structure. They sought the creation of a grievance cell to address complaints and alleged that colleges were mislabelling extra charges as optional

Hyderabad: Raising serious concerns over private affiliated engineering colleges collecting excess fee from students, NSUI student activists demanded that JNTU-Hyderabad intervene and initiate necessary action against the erring institutions.

In a representation to JNTU-Hyderabad Registrar Prof K Venkateswara Rao here on Monday, NSUI state leader Devarala Rakesh said several engineering colleges were collecting fees far beyond the officially prescribed structure under various pretexts.

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“We demand strict action against such institutions and request JNTU-Hyderabad to establish a separate grievance cell to address fee-related complaints from students,” he said.

The students’ organisation emphasised that the extra charges were often labelled as ‘optional’ or ‘miscellaneous’ but were being forcibly collected, which puts unnecessary financial pressure on students.