http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:IZIBVzcU9dw:www.telegraphindia.com/the_east.htm > Calcutta, Aug. 16:
> ... it was the turn of Jadavpur
> University (JU) to be engulfed in fee-hike fury on
> Thursday. Protests by students from the engineering,
> technology and science faculties led to the
> suspension of B.Sc admissions. Things took an ugly
> turn after the authorities decided to ?forcibly?
> remove two students observing a ?fast-unto-death? to
> hospital. An effigy of the vice-chancellor was burnt
> and by evening, five more students had joined ?the
> indefinite hungerstrike?, demanding ?immediate
> withdrawal of the fee-hike decision?.
http://in.news.yahoo.com/010721/58/11nr9.html > Calcutta, July 21:
> A section of students at Jadavpur University today
> gheraoed vice-chancellor A.N. Basu and executive
> members to protest their decision to increase fees
> and introduce a new fee structure from the current
> academic session.
> The DSO, the students? arm of the SUCI and the All
> India Students Association (AISA), a Naxalite
> students union, organised the gherao after the
> university decided to introduce a new fee
> structure. ?We will continue it until the new fee
> structure is withdrawn,? a DSO spokesman said.
...
> Under the new fee structure, an engineering student
> will have to pay Rs 300 per month as tuition fee and
> Rs 100 as laboratory charges. Sujoy Das, assistant
> general secretary of FETSU, said they used to pay Rs
> 20 as tuition fee and there was no provision to
> charge laboratory fees from engineering students.
...
> He said FETSU will launch movement against the new
> fee structure next week.
...
An earlier report presenting one student's point of view:
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:UnHQEvjFGwg:www.bengalonthenet.com/news/june_2k1/1st/fee_hike.htm > Calcutta, May 31: The fear of `privatisation' has
> added fuel to the Jadavpur University student
> fire. The students' unions on campus are protesting
> the revised fee structure recommended by the
> administration. Bowing to their pressure,
> university authorities have decided to put on hold
> the decision to hike tuition and other fees by 900
> per cent.
> "We are not opposing the fee hike because we don't
> want to pay more. But we fear that this is the
> first step towards privatisation of the
> university," said Sujoy Das, a leader of the
> engineering faculty students' union. "And that is
> something we will never allow."
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