JNU orders partial rollback of hostel fees hike: HRD officials

After the university executive committee meeting headed by Vice-Chancellor M Jagadesh Kumar on Wednesday, a decision was taken to partially roll back the hostel fees hike.

The decision comes after protests by JNU students since Monday which resulted in large clashes with the police and ended up in violence.

The HRD officials also added that, JNU proposed a scheme for economic assistance to EWS students.

The JNU students are demanding the withdrawal of the draft hostel manual, in which service charges of Rs 1,700 were introduced and the one-time mess security fee,



which is refundable, has been hiked from Rs 5,500 to Rs 12,000. The rent for a single-seater room has been increased from Rs 20 per month to Rs 600 per month, while rent for a double-seater room has been increased to Rs 300 per month from Rs 10 per month.

The draft hostel manual, approved by the Inter-Hall administration, also has provisions for the hostel fee hike, dress code and 'curfew' timings.

Earlier, the students had gheraoed the AICTE building, the venue for varsity's convocation, during which Union HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal was stuck for over six hours.