Noida: Fifty-six students of Skyline Institute of Engineering and Technology protested on Tuesday against the college management’s decision to collect seventh semester fees from them as that they had already paid this fees to their previous college before a mid-session
transfer.
These 56 students are a part of 81 students who were shifted to four different colleges in Greater Noida and Ghaziabad after JRE Group of Institutions in Knowledge Park shut down last year. AKTU, to which the institutes are affiliated, had issued a notification last year saying these students had already paid the seventh semester fees (about Rs 70,000), they would be required to pay the eighth semester fee only.
However, on Monday evening, they received a notice from the college which showed that AKTU had allowed them to collect fees for “odd semester” from third year and final year students transferred from JRE to Skyline. Later in the evening, AKTU released a fresh notification saying the previous one had an error and it should have been “even semester”.