Private College fee issues.

[Harisrmite 0]

If we discontinue any course before completion in a private college should we pay the full course fee as demanded by the management? (Is it legally correct for the college to ask full course fee?)

[Prasad GLN 1,761]

Yes.  An institution is not a lodge to come and go as one likes.  The college has limited seats, and if a student abandons a course in the middle, in the mid semesters of the entire course, they can not get such vacant post filled as per regulations.

For example, if a student joins a course of 4 semesters, complete one semester and discontinued, for the three remaining semesters, the college can not get a student, and it has to suffer financial loss through fees of the remaining semesters.

NCDRC ruled that a student must not put an institution to such loss and should compensate the college.  The college expenses and capacity of the seats are limited and fixed because a student discontinued, they can not dismantle the building block or ask a lecturer to resign, etc.

It may be true that some students may drop due to their weak financial position, to fill up the gap Govt has taken up for reimbursing the fees of below poverty line students and all nationalized banks are financing for such courses.

If such students after availing the reimbursement abandon a course in the middle, he has to refund that fees to Government as per aP Govt GO.  AP government has also issued GO to all colleges not to retain originals of qualification certificates as security for future fees.