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Under\u00a0 the new proposed fees, students will have to pay between 1,800 rupees ($25; \u00a320) and 3,600 rupees ($50; \u00a340) every year for housing on campus. They were previously paying between 120 rupees ($1.60) and 240 rupees ($3).<\/p>\n
They will also have to pay for other services – such as electricity and sanitation – which they say they have never had to do before.<\/p>\n
Many say that the new structure is prohibitive, particularly for students from poorer backgrounds, and will affect its standing as an inclusive institution.<\/p>\n
A renowned centre for teaching and research that provides education at a fraction of the cost charged by its private counterparts, the government-run JNU is a highly coveted university.<\/p>\n
Its alumni hold sway in the bureaucracy, journalism, the police and a host of other public and private sector jobs.<\/p>\n
The HRD Ministry appointed three-member panel to recommend ways to restore normal functioning in the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) which is facing student agitation, concluded its meetings on Friday and will submit its recommendations next week.<\/p>\n
The three-member committee, including former UGC Chairman V S Chauhan, AICTE chairman Anil Sahasrabudhe and UGC secretary Rajnish Jain visited JNU campus on Friday to meet the students union representatives.<\/p>\n
Private education in India is still unaffordable for the majority of the country’s population and jobs in government institutions are limited. JNU, its supporters say, plays an important role in remedying that.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Thousands of students protesting a hostel fee hike have brought one of India’s most prestigious universities,Jawaharlal Nehru University,\u00a0 to a standstill for almost a month. For almost four weeks now, students have been protesting against an increase in accommodation fees at the top university. Under\u00a0 the new proposed fees, students will have to pay between […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12092,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12090\/revisions\/12092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}