The decision of the HNB Garhwal University to hike the examination fee has met with stiff resistance from the students. On Monday the agitated students locked the main entrance of the DAV PG College here for more than one hour. The former president of the DAV PG College, Paras Goyal said that the university should take back its decision to increase the examination fees. He said that the university has affected a hike of Rs1,300 in the examination fee which is a big burden on the students.
The students who earlier were paying a fee of Rs850 would now have to shell out Rs2,150 as examination fees. Gaurav Tomar of Akhil Bharatiya Vidhyarthi Parishad (ABVP) said that the organisation would not tolerate the hike in examination fees.
Dayal Bisht of the ABVP said that the student wing would observe boycott of the classes and retort to agitation if the fee hike is not rolled back.
The students also gheraoed the principal of the college on the issue as a protest measure.