The Department of English has increased its fee for their PhD programme by Rs.22,000 from this year. Earlier the fee used to be Rs.1932 per session but from this session onwards, the fees will be Rs.24,000. Students were given a timer for one day to submit the tuition fees. In lieu of the events, Delhi University students from the English department have started protesting against the sudden fee hike.
The professors at the Department of English have also voiced their concerns regarding the recent and sudden hike of the tuition fees. Mostly the other departments of Delhi University charge Rs.3000 to 5000 from students for a PhD programme per session. The most concerning thing is that this fee hike was not mentioned in the 2023 notice of the Department of English. It has been recently introduced which is why most students are not accepting it
