ANANTAPUR: Students of all departments at Central University of Andhra Pradesh (CUAP) have started boycotting their online classes protesting over charging of enormous fee by authorities of the institution.
“CUAP is a central university established as per AP Bifurcation Act, 2014 for development of the backward Anantapur district. Though being a public university, it is charging highly unreasonable fees for social sciences and humanities courses, which do not require any infrastructure like science or computer labs and other sophisticated facilities. High fee will have a negative impact on students as well as university’s future, as students will prefer other central universities,” pointed out Sai Ram Macha, a final year student of B.A Honours in Political Science.
Student organisations claim fee structure of under-graduation and post-graduation courses at Central University of Andhra Pradesh is 10 times more than the same programmes at other central…