'NRI seats misused, lower PU standards'

Times of India- Chandigarh

Chandigarh: There are angry voices on the campus. People are questioning the existence of NRI or industry-sponsored seats. ...

... "Presence of undeserving students under NRI quota affects other meritorious students in professional courses. If the university has to enrol NRI students for financial reasons, it should do so by adding extra seats and not by cutting into the general quota seats," says Satya Pal Jain, another senator. ...

Capitation fee: BJP in protest mode

Chandigarh Newsline

Chandigarh, March 24: The local BJP unit staged a dharna at the Sector 17 Plaza opposite Neelam Cinema on Thursday. The party is protesting against the non-implementation of the Punjab and Haryana High Court judgment - related to capitation fess being charged by private schools here -passed on February 14. ...

... Today addressing the dharna, former MP Satya Pal Jain categorically demanded that the judgment of the High Court regarding the capitation fee should be enforced at once. He said the Administration should direct all private schools not to charge a heavy capitation fee and 25 per cent of seats should be reserved for the children of the poor. The teachers of private schools should be paid salaries and other allowances at par with government teachers. ...

PU Senate approves 10 pc fee hike

Chandigarh Tribune

Chandigarh, March 20: The Panjab University Senate approved 10 per cent fee hike in all the university departments from the session 2005-06 at its meeting held here today. ...

... Three senators - Mr Ashok Goyal, Mr Satpal Jain and Mr Ajay Pal Gill - recorded their dissent over the decision and Senator Prabhjit Singh said the university should think about not raising the fee in the next three years. ...

BJP flays admn on high school fee

Chandigarh Newsline
Chandigarh, March 15: THE Chandigarh unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday trained its guns at the UT Administration, alleging that no steps had been taken—despite a High Court directive—to prevent some city schools from charging "unreasonably hefty" amounts as capitation fees and compulsary contribution to various school funds from students.
Satya Pal Jain, former MP and national convenor of the BJP's legal cell, said, in a press conference, that despite a month after the Punjab and Haryana High Court's judgement and directive, the UT administration was sitting pretty on it and causing financial loss to poor students' families and exploitation to the schools' staff. He said the last few years had seen enormous hike in school fees and introduction of new "funds"—like development fund, building fund, etc—in the fee structure, making it harder for students from the weaker sections. ...