GU to start refunding fees from Tuesday
The Gujarat University will start refunding the excess fees charged from the students of MBA and MCA by various self-financed institutes affiliated to it from Tuesday onwards, said vice chancellor A U Patel.

The university and the All India Council for Technical Education had earlier ordered the self-financed institutes to refund the first installment of excess fees charged from the students in the academic year 2000-01 to return before July 31. The second installment of excess fees will have to be returned by August 31 towards payment to the students of academic year 2001-02.

A total of seven self-financed MBA and nine MCA institutes are affiliated to the university. All such institutes except Som Lalit Institute of Management and Computer Applications and L J Commerce College have either returned the excess fees or have agreed to do so before July 31, Mr Patel said.

The students will be paid back through crossed cheques on producing ID card or a photograph attested by the respective college on its letterhead.

It may be recalled that the institutes had overcharged the students of MCA by Rs 12,500 in payment seats category and Rs 5,500 in free seats category. Likewise, the MBA students were overcharged by Rs 7,500 in the payment seats category and Rs 6,000 in the free seats category.

National Institute of Cooperative Management, Gandhinagar and Nirma University have already submitted the excess amount to the university. Institutes run by Gujarat Law Society will submit the excess fees on Saturday where as institutes run by Ahmedabad Education Society and S K Patel Institute of Management and Computer Applications have consented to refund the first installment of excess fees before July 31.

Meanwhile, the university will request the government to initiate criminal proceedings against Pipaliya Arts and Science College, Baroda which was recently found to be indulging in a number of malpractices. The institute had forged answer sheets of SY BA, SY BCom and SYBSc and threatening the teachers apart from charging fees as a self-financed institute even though it is a grants-in-college accrued over Rs 1 crore, he added.

Republished from The Asian Age