Neeraj — Non-refund of provisional registration and tuition fee

Address:	New Delhi, Delhi
Website:	SRM University

My son was provisionally selected in the srm counselling conducted in may 16 for admission in b tech - civil engineering ug-ft-academic for 2016-17 in campus faculty of engineering and /technology, kattankulathur chennai. An amount of rs. 1, 50, 000/- (Tuition fee) and 10, 000/- (Registration fee) was paid. Rest of payment for an amount of rs.55, 000/-. Was to be paid on or before 02 jun 16. On 26 may 16 i applied for refund my whole amount well before admission process. Moreover there were plenty of civil engineering seats were available in all the campus till last day of counselling. (Ncr, sonipat, chennai) thus no aspiring candidates lost the seat due to my son's provisionally registration. As per ugc policy only rs.1, 000 can be deducted on cancellation/withdrawl. But srm university chennai is refunding the amount after deducting the 10, 000/- whereas as per ugc policy 1, 000/- to be deducted. I suggest that private university should not be allowed to conduct counselling process before declaration of jee advance and cbse board and at least the state board result where university campus is located. It is just like pre-launch scheme of selling the flats/plots and these universities on the name of imparting education to the society are collecting the huge mass of wealth and thus have set up college one after another but not reducing the fee. It is the duty of the govt institution to keep a eye on the fee structure so that these universities do not charge excess fee. I suggest goi to pass a bill like real estate to curb the malpractice o[censored]niversities in terms of delay of refund and charging high fee and instruct the universities to specify the time limit for refund the amount in case of withdrawl and in case of delay of payment penalty of interest also to be imposed. I appeal to all the aspiring candidates to read the instructions carefully regarding refund policy before applying admission.