James Wilson
In Uttarakhand, students of private Ayurveda medical colleges have been protesting for more than 50 days over an arbitrary fee hike of 170 per cent which even the high court has found to be unreasonably high.
https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/india/uttarakhand-bjp-leaders-pvt-colleges-defy-hc-order-students-protest-for-50-days-against-170-fee-hike
Uttarakhand: BJP leaders’ pvt colleges defy HC order, students protest for 50 days against 170% fee hike

In Uttarakhand, pvt Ayurveda medical colleges students have been protesting for 50 days over a fee hike of 170% which even high court has found to be unreasonably high. Many of these colleges are owned by BJP leaders, ministers. Is BJP above the law?

Nov 16, 2019 at 2:15pmWeb
Show threadJames WilsonNov 16, 2019

Many of these colleges are owned by BJP leaders, ministers and Sangh Parivar-friendly businessmen.

Uttarkhand Ayush minister and Union HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal own Ayurvedic colleges. Baba Ramdev and Acharya Balkrishna run the Patanjali Ayurveda College

Show threadJames WilsonNov 16, 2019
"We just want the colleges to implement court orders but they don’t want to do so. The managements have the nerve to disobey court orders because several BJP ministers own colleges here and they want the fee to be hiked,” said Bhaskar Chakravorty, a second-year BAMS student.
Show threadJames WilsonNov 16, 2019
Colleges started demanding the enhanced fee retrospectively. So, if a student was in the final year of the BAMS course in 2015, which was when the government order was passed, the student would have to pay increased fees for all the previous years including the current year.
Show threadJames WilsonNov 16, 2019
So, the students went to Uttarakhand High Court soon after and, on September 16, 2016, a single judge-bench stayed the fee hike. Then in July 2018, the court passed a verdict nullifying the fee hike and directed the management to return any excess fee collected by the colleges.
Show threadKaavyaNov 16, 2019
@jamewils me thinks retrospective fees and taxes should be banned. It just seems too draconian. I've faced retrospective vat payments, still have some 'bills' to pay. Completely on the whims and fancies of a current government/body (whoever they may be).
Show threadHairy PotterNov 16, 2019
@jamewils Increasing the fee retrospectively is arbitrary.