This is a discussion on AfterGraduation's new article "MTech Fee Hike At IITs, Aspirants Stage Protest For Rollback".
Several IIT MTech aspirants staged a protest today on October 4, 2019, at Jantar Mantar, Delhi against the HRD Ministry decision to hike fees for Master’s degree programme at Indian Institutes of Technology. Students under the banner of All India Engineering Student Council demand a roll-back of the 900% fee hike in the Indian Institutes of Technology’s M.Tech programme.
The ministry in a recent decision with the consultation of the Indian Institute of Technology (IITs) hiked the course fees of the postgraduate (Master’s) programmes and also slashed the stipend received by those students.
The protesters said the hike will be an excess burden on “serious students” which count to 50% of total admitted students who are “surely is a large number and government cannot be ignorant towards those who want to pursue their career through M.Tech”.
