HYDERABAD: Despite clearing intermediate first year fee, private junior colleges are said to be threatening to hold back hall tickets of students with second year fee dues.
With the Board of Intermediate Education (BIE) releasing the schedule of first year examinations and announcing that exams would begin from October 25, 2021, parents have complained that colleges were pressurizing them to clear fee dues.
“I have already cleared first year fees of my daughter and paid another Rs 10, 000 towards the fee of the intermediate second year, but college is asking us to clear the entire second year fee,” a parent, whose daughter is studying in intermediate second year at a corporate college in the city, said.
He questioned the reason behind asking him to clear the entire second year fee in the mid of the academic year. “These are first year exams. I have already cleared the fee. Why should the management ask me to clear second year fee as well at this stage?” the parent questioned.
Another parent, whose son is studying at a private college in Uppal, said, “I went and paid the entire second year fee after the management threatened to withhold hall-tickets. Instead of supporting during the pandemic, they are making us pay the full fee in advance,” the parent added.
Faculty working at various private junior colleges in the city said that they have received instructions from management to warn students of consequences of not paying fees.“A majority of colleges have instructed their faculty to intimate students that they will not be given hall-tickets if the fee is not cleared. They are using this opportunity to get fee dues,” said A Santosh Kumar, president, Telangana Schools Technical Colleges Employees Association.
The private junior college managements said that they need to get the fee from about 65% of parents in the last academic year. This year, they said that they have not received fees from majority of the students.
“We are not threatening to withhold hall-tickets. Instead of keeping silent when asked to clear dues, parents should talk to managements and come to an understanding and let them know by when they can clear the fee,” said Satish G, president, Telangana Private Junior Colleges Managements Association.
With the Board of Intermediate Education (BIE) releasing the schedule of first year examinations and announcing that exams would be conducted from October 25, 2021, parents have complained that colleges were pressurizing them to clear second year fee dues
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