Posting a video on X, news agency ANI reported that the students held placards in Gujarati language, reportedly urging authorities to roll back the fee hike.
The video also showed police dragging students out of a building.
Watch the video here:
#WATCH | Ahmedabad, Gujarat | NSUI members today held a protest over fee hike in PhD and graduation courses for the academic year 2025-26 in Gujarat University pic.twitter.com/XxQlHbIf97
— ANI (@ANI) March 3, 2025
Speaking to the media, Gujarat NSUI President Naresh Solanki said they will continue to protest until GU rolls back the fee hike.
NSUI’s Vikram Gohil said that GU’s irrational decision to raise fees for self-finance courses on the varsity campus and affiliated colleges has “pushed students from middle & lower-middle class and rural areas into the corner, making education available only for the financially privileged.”
He warned that middle- and lower-middle-class students enrolled in state university courses will be impacted by the institution’s decision to raise the cost of self-financed courses by ₹3,600 to ₹4,500 annually.
The mission of the state university is to “ensure that education remains within the reach of students from each economic section of society,” he said.
Gohil warned that NSUI would protest at GU and ‘gherao the VC’ if the university did not reverse the cost increases within two days.
Earlier, the NSUI team met with the registrar, presented a memorandum and threatened to hold an aggressive protest on campus. The student union gave the authorities two days to roll back the fee hike.
This wasn’t the first time the NSUI held a protest against a fee hike. Last year, the NSUI protested at 13 Gujarat Medical Education and Research Society (GMERS) campuses against the fee hike by the Gujarat government.
Congress claimed that parents were under financial strain due to a 67% to 88% increase in medical course fees.
(Edited by : Sudarsanan Mani)
First Published: Mar 3, 2025 3:49 PM IST
