Panjab College has constituted an eight-member panel to take a name on remission of hostel price for college kids who reside there on visitor foundation for the lockdown interval.
The panel, which incorporates PU’s dean college students’ welfare (DSW) SK Tomar, senators Navdeep Goyal and Rajat Sandhir and PU’s finance and growth officer, is scheduled to fulfill on August 13 to take a call on the matter.
College students residing in hostels on visitor foundation pay month-to-month versus paying for your complete semester without delay.
“We obtained representations from college students demanding remission of hostel price for college kids residing there on visitor foundation. Many components are being considered earlier than the choice is taken,” Tomar mentioned.
The illustration given by former PU college students’ council president Chetan Chaudhary and former joint secretary Manpreet Mahal in June can be tabled in the course of the assembly of the panel. The previous council members had demanded remission of hostel price for March and April.
“College students had been in panic as authorities are demanding price from these residing within the hostel on visitor foundation for the lockdown interval,” Chaudhary mentioned.
There has additionally been rising demand from PU college students to waive off price for the present semester, on-line lessons for which have already commenced.
Nationwide College students Union of India (NSUI) PU president, Nikhil Narmeta mentioned, “The authorities must also take a call on adjusting the price for hostellers who weren’t right here in the course of the pandemic.”