Jun 25, 2008Students’ forum stages demonstration Special Correspondent
To protest against collection of donations by institutions |
CUDDALORE: Members of the Tamilaga Manavar Sangam staged a demonstration in front of the Collectorate here condemning the practice of collecting compulsory donation by the educational institutions.
According to A.Vijai, State secretary (technical education wing) of the Sangam, it had become habitual for the educational institutions to collect compulsory donation and exorbitant fees under various heads.
Though the government had fixed the fee structure the self-financing colleges did not adhere to it. The excess fee collection by the managements had made higher education, even school education, unaffordable to the students belonging to the economically weaker sections. Therefore, the Sangam urged the authorities to take severe action against institutions which fleeced the students by throwing to the winds the fee collection norms.
Mr. Vijai further said the students’ forum earlier known as Pattali Manavar Sangam had opted for a name change (as Tamilaga Manavar Sangam) because it wanted to shed off the political flavour.
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