Kolkata: Law colleges under Calcutta University have been alerted to refund semester fees if they collected any at the time of admission for the five-year programme.
Calcutta University issued the notice following a meeting under the chairmanship of vice-chancellor Asutosh Ghosh on Oct 12 on the five-year BA LLB admissions. After multiple complaints were received and anomalies came to light, the university launched a centralised online admission procedure last year across 14 colleges for 17 courses, offering around 3,000 seats for the five-year BA LLB programme. It also advised students to pay the first-semester fee only after a notification was released. Roy noted they introduced a one-time seat-booking fee that remained unchanged even if a student switched colleges.
“If you have already paid, please contact your college immediately to claim a full refund of the first-semester fee,” the notice stated. “All these reforms are made to protect students’ interests, but after all these efforts, if some colleges violate the rules, students have every right to challenge them,” Roy said. The notice issued by the university asked students and their parents to claim a refund of extra fees paid, as a notification regarding the fees was yet to be published. It advised guardians and applicants not to pay the first-semester fee until a notification on it was published. the admission process lacked transparency Although an entrance exam was conducted.
Earlier, there was no strict procedure for law admissions.