Calcutta University has waived the admission, tuition, examination and other fees for all semesters for the academic year 2021-2022 because of the “present pandemic situation”.
Registrar Debasis Das said in a notice: “In view of the present pandemic situation, the university has waived off all fees…. It is not required for the students to pay fees for collecting the mark sheets/grade sheets of different semester examinations.”
The waiver will be applicable to all courses except the self-financed ones and to all postgraduate students and the students of the undergraduate courses run directly by the university, said Das.
The university runs undergraduate courses in home science, engineering and law on its campuses.
A BTech student in the first semester is required to pay Rs 5,472, which includes a monthly tuition fee of Rs 500 and a monthly laboratory fee of Rs 100.
“Amid the pandemic, family members of students have lost jobs or suffered pay cuts and this has caused severe financial constraints. We want to support students as much as possible during these trying times,” vice-chancellor Sonali Chakravarti Banerjee said.
Jadavpur University has been offering a 25 per cent concession on tuition fees and a 50 per cent discount on laboratory fees.
The university has reduced the tuition fee of the postgraduate course in journalism and mass communication, a self-financed course, from Rs 40,000 to Rs 26,000 after students cited pandemic-induced financial constraints they are reeling under.
