Student not to submit original certificates on admission, Fee refund on admission withdrawal
Thursday - October 11, 2018 11:49 am ,
Category : INDIA
No student will be required to submit any original academic and personal certificates at the time of submission of admission form
Students’ will get refund of fee from the Institution if they withdraw their admission from the programme
Educational Institutes to refund of fees submitted by student if student withdrawal their admission as well as institute cannot hold original certificates of students. Union Minister for HRD Prakash Javadekar said in a press conference in New Delhi. While interacting with media Javadekar informed that UGC will issue a Notification on refund of fees and non retention of original certificates by institutions to facilitate students in their admission.
He further said that the students of our country were facing several problems during admissions, due to coercive and profiteering institutional practices being adopted by some institutions. For the facilitation of the students, the University Grants Commission Notification on Refund of Fees and Non Retention of Original Certificates is being brought out.
Now no student will be required to submit any original academic and personal certificates at the time of submission of admission form and Students’ will get refund of fee from the Institution if they withdraw their admission from the programme. This notification shall be applicable to Under Graduate, Post Graduate and Research Programmes run by Universities included under Section 2(f) of the UGC Act, all Colleges under their affiliating domain and Institutions declared as Deemed to be Universities under Section 3 of the UGC Act.
Salient features of the Notification are as below-
This Notification will aid the students seeking admission to Higher Educational Institutions in the following manner:
The Higher education institutes can charge fees in advance only for the semester/ year in which a student wants to engage in academic activities. Collecting advance fees for the entire programme of study is strictly prohibited.
The institute will be required to refund the fees, in case a student withdraws from the programme, in the following manner:
100%: in case a student decides to withdraw 15 days or more before the formally notified last date of admission. Not more than 5% of the fees paid by the student, subject to a maximum of Rs. 5000, will be deducted as processing charges.
90%: in case a student decides to withdraw within 15 days before the formally notified last date of admission.
80%: in case a student decides to withdraw within 15 days after the formally notified last date of admission.
50%: in case a student decides to withdraw between 16 days and 30 days after the formally notified last date of admission.
NIL: in case a student decides to withdraw after 30 days of the formally notified last date of admission.
The entire caution money and security deposit, which are not part of the fees chargeable, shall be refunded in full.
Refund of fees shall be made by the HEIs within 15 days of receipt of a written application from a student.
No Institute can make it mandatory for applicants to purchase the institutional prospectus at any time during the course of the time of study.
All HEIs will be required to disclose on their website and prospectus the information regarding overall activities on their websites.
