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Nepalese Students UP Against Tuition Fee Rise
By KTM Metro Reporter in Kathmandu
The university students have been staging the protest rallies against the State-run university increasing the tuition fee ten times from Rs 50 per month to Rs 500 per month. Students wanted to be on the team assessing the tuition fee but the University administration denied them. Students also accused the university administration of not making it efficient and not increasing the standard of education, not shedding the over staffs, and not properly using the resources available to the university. They say that the government has been providing the university with 90% subsidy on its administration but it has not been able to manage the university properly. Mostly the poor students attend the university as well-off students attend the private university for better education; in no case, the university increasing the tuition fee ten times is justifiable say students.
The representatives of the students have met with the Prime Minister and submitted a memo to him asking for rolling back the tuition fee rise. However, the Prime Minister was not for outright rolling back the decision on the tuition fee rise, as a highly qualified team has carefully studied the need of the tuition-fee increase.
The university administration has been saying that the university would not be able to sustain itself without increasing the tuition fee. So, the university administration has stuck fast to the decision on increasing the tuition fee.
