Massive Protests Erupt In IIT Guwahati Over 'Exceptionally High' Fee Hike

Massive Protests Erupt In IIT Guwahati Over 'Exceptionally High' Fee Hike

IIT Guwahati students are protesting fee hike. They allege they were promised a revision in hike but nothing happened and on Tuesday, the day of registration for the July-November semester, the students were forced to pay fee.

Massive protest at IIT Guwahati over 'Exceptionally high’ hike in fee

Fee hike for BTech and MTech courses comes alongside similar hike for PhD students this year, triggering the protest with more students likely to throw themselves into it

Assam: Students at IIT Guwahati Protest Sudden Fee Hike, Say Move Unjustified

Over a 100 students at IIT Guwahati staged a protest on campus on Tuesday, July 22, around 12 noon against a sudden fee hike across various programmes, including PhD, MTech and BTech. Students raised concerns about the financial strain imposed by the increase, especially on scholars who are already managing family responsibilities and educational loans.  Chanting slogans like “Kam karo, kam karo, fee hike kam karo”, the protestors marched throug…