Panjab University (PU) has justified the tuition fee increase implemented recently for the first year students of various courses of the University.
For the last six years, there has been no increase in the tuition fee and other charges for any course in PU and it had become necessary to cut down the deficit in the annual budget of PU, said a PU spokesperson. The spokesperson said that the fee was increased and duly announced after June 29 syndicate meeting. In this way, when the first year students took admission in the University, they were quite aware of this fact. He added that the fees of PU are still far less than other educational institutions of the region.
The hike in tuition fee has been implemented for first year students only and it is in consonance with the increase in the cost of living due to inflation, so it is justified. The PU has urged the students to accept the hike in the interest of being necessary to sustaining and creating additional infrastructure and other facilities in this prestigious University. “The protest by a section of students of PU about the increase in the tuition fee for the first year students is unjustified,” he added.