Presidency University Students’ Union Seeks Fee Waiver For Current Semester

Kolkata: The Presidency University Students’ Union (PUSU) has demanded a fee waiver for all students for the current semester in view of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The PUSU shot an e-mail to the varsity authorities and demanded that the fee for the current semester and the end semester examination be completely waived for all the students.

PUSU president Mimosa Ghorai and three other office-bearers signed the letter sent to the authorities.

“In the Covid situation, every student is faced with multiple personal issues. One student out of every five is getting infected and many students come from economically backward families and face various hardships … If any family member of a student gets infected the entire saving of the family is used for the treatment and the cost is huge after which nothing is left for the students to pay fees,” Ghorai was quoted as saying by news agency PTI.

“In addition, the fee list involves lab fee, basic service fee, library fee — in fact most students are not in a position to use these facilities but have to pay,” the PUSU said urging the authorities to address the issue at the earliest.

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