India, June 4 -- A sharp hike in fees for several undergraduate and postgraduate programmes at the Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics (GIPE) for the academic year 2026-27 has triggered protests from the National Students' Union of India (NSUI) which termed the hike as 'arbitrary' and 'anti-student' and demanded that it be rolled back immediately.

Following GIPE's announcement of the revised fee structure on April 1 this year, Maharashtra Pradesh NSUI general secretary advocate Krishna Sathe on June 3 submitted a memorandum to GIPE vice-chancellor (VC) Umakant Dash, stating that fees for several courses have risen steeply within a year, making higher education increasingly inaccessible to students from ordinary economic backgroun...