New Delhi, Feb. 19 -- Investor Aviral Bhatnagar has shared that his niece's UKG fees are crossing Rs.4 lakh a year. The IIT Bombay alumnus compared it to his college fees. Bhatnagar earned his Bachelor of Technology (B Tech) in Engineering Physics from IIT Bombay from 2010 to 2014.

"Cousin told me her daughter's UKG fees is crossing 4L/yr in Mumbai. My fees at IIT Bombay was half that for the entirety of the 4 years. Education costs are the hidden inflation that no-one is talking about. Perhaps AI tutors will make it affordable again," he wrote on Twitter (now X).

Social media users reacted enthusiastically.

"It's not education cost inflation but Lifestyle Inflation costs, your cousin is rich already he want to send to top nursery scho...