LUCKNOW, April 22 -- Four days after admission brochure was released for undergraduate courses which led to several protests due to the substantial fee hike in self-financed semester fee, Lucknow University vice chancellor Prof J P Saini in a press conference on Tuesday-his first after assuming charge- said there will be no rollback in the semester fee hike.

On the fee hike in self-financed courses, he said around 22.5% of the students belonging to SC and ST categories get a 100% refund of the fee. "27% of EWS category students get a scholarship up to Rs.55,000 from the government. Until last year, a student opting for BA self-financed course used to pay for each subject they added, while they were only reimbursed the tuition fee," the V...