IIT Bombay Fee Hike Row: Students begin email campaign, likely to go on hunger strike

Over 100 emails have been sent in just one day and the campaign will continue. The email addressed to the Board of Governors of IIT Bombay elaborates on the issue and seeks immediate rollback of the fee hike. 

IIT Bombay Fee Hike Row: Students of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay have started an email campaign in their ongoing opposition to the recent fee hike. As a part of this campaign, a QR code is being circulated that directly opens a pre-filled email to be sent to the Board of Governors of IIT-Bombay.

More than 100 emails sent in one day

Over 100 emails have been sent in just one day and the campaign will continue, students told the Indian Express. The email addressed to the Board of Governors of IIT Bombay elaborates on the issue and seeks immediate rollback of the fee hike. The email states, “In the open house meeting on July 26, the administration asked us to challenge the BoG and pointed fingers at the Department of Education and Government of India for limiting funding resources, which are forcing them to quench and strain money out of students,”

Include student representatives in fee committee

It also highlights how during the last fee hike in 2017, it was decided to include student representatives in fee committee but this was not done when the latest fee hike was announced.

“On the one hand when the email campaign has started, we also resumed the daily poster demonstration against the fee hike inside the institute campus,” said a student.

Students likely to go on hunger strike

The fee structure for Master’s and PhD courses has increased by 45 per cent in the recently declared fee circular for the autumn semester, the report said.

While the students are continuously active on social media platforms through their group ‘IIT Bombay Students Against Fee Hike’, the students have also announced about a hunger strike if their demand to roll back the fee hike is not met by August 5. Students have also written to the director of the institute.

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