New Delhi: The College students’ Federation of India (SFI) on Friday alleged that the Nationwide Testing Company has elevated the payment of 2024 CUET-PG software types. In a letter to NTA Director Subodh Kumar Singh, the scholar physique’s Delhi state committee mentioned the payment hike is a “blatant assault” on increased eduction alternatives for college students within the nation. It’s “anti-student” and a step in direction of “privatisation” of training, it mentioned.
There was no instant response from the company to the letter or the allegation of the scholars’ wing of the CPI(M), at the same time as an SFI delegation met senior advisor, Nationwide Testing Company (NTA), HC Gupta, on the difficulty and demanded the rollback of the “payment hike”.
The Widespread College Entrance Check (CUET)-PG for admission to postgraduate programmes in universities throughout the nation is performed by the NTA.
In an announcement, the SFI alleged that the NTA has hiked the payment for CUET-PG software types by Rs 200 for all classes “on account of lack of funds” and it’ll influence particularly these belonging to marginalised communities and from backward areas.
“The NTA highlighted that sufficient funds are usually not being launched…which is resulting in such hikes,” it mentioned.
The company, the SFI claimed, has elevated the payment by Rs 200 for all classes.
The present payment for normal class college students is Rs 1,200, for college students from economically weaker sections and different backward lessons Rs 1,000, for these from scheduled castes and tribes Rs 900, and Rs 800 for individuals with disabilities, it claimed.
“The SFI strongly opposes this logic and calls it out for being one other step that the federal government at giant is taking in direction of the entire privatisation of training,” the SFI mentioned in its letter to NTA Director Singh.
The delegation that met Gupta on the NTA workplace comprised SFI members Mehina (Delhi College), Nadia (Jamia Millia Islamia), Sagar (Jawaharlal Nehru College) and Vibhu (Ambedkar College).
In a associated improvement, college students’ outfits AISA and ABVP highlighted the non-inclusion of the Jawaharlal Nehru College within the listing of schools taking CUET-PG 2024 software types on the CUET web site.
The college has now notified that it’s a technical glitch and it is going to be rectified inside a few days, the scholars’ outfits mentioned.
There was no instant response from the company to the letter or the allegation of the scholars’ wing of the CPI(M), at the same time as an SFI delegation met senior advisor, Nationwide Testing Company (NTA), HC Gupta, on the difficulty and demanded the rollback of the “payment hike”.
The Widespread College Entrance Check (CUET)-PG for admission to postgraduate programmes in universities throughout the nation is performed by the NTA.
In an announcement, the SFI alleged that the NTA has hiked the payment for CUET-PG software types by Rs 200 for all classes “on account of lack of funds” and it’ll influence particularly these belonging to marginalised communities and from backward areas.
“The NTA highlighted that sufficient funds are usually not being launched…which is resulting in such hikes,” it mentioned.
The company, the SFI claimed, has elevated the payment by Rs 200 for all classes.
The present payment for normal class college students is Rs 1,200, for college students from economically weaker sections and different backward lessons Rs 1,000, for these from scheduled castes and tribes Rs 900, and Rs 800 for individuals with disabilities, it claimed.
“The SFI strongly opposes this logic and calls it out for being one other step that the federal government at giant is taking in direction of the entire privatisation of training,” the SFI mentioned in its letter to NTA Director Singh.
The delegation that met Gupta on the NTA workplace comprised SFI members Mehina (Delhi College), Nadia (Jamia Millia Islamia), Sagar (Jawaharlal Nehru College) and Vibhu (Ambedkar College).
In a associated improvement, college students’ outfits AISA and ABVP highlighted the non-inclusion of the Jawaharlal Nehru College within the listing of schools taking CUET-PG 2024 software types on the CUET web site.
The college has now notified that it’s a technical glitch and it is going to be rectified inside a few days, the scholars’ outfits mentioned.
