Dear dad,
Greetings! I just finished having my dinner at mess. New cook at mess is kind of good, but the amount of spice that he adds to food is unbearably hot. Today, I had something looking like “Chappathi” for dinner. Thursday night, you see.
This mail is to inform about the things that are happening around me. Earlier, you had paid me a fee of 33K for hostel out of the total fee of 47K (If you don’t remember, I will be staying in hostel only for 6 months), but suddenly today my friend told me that they have added an additional 10K. I know, it came out of the blue. Even I’m unclear of the fact why they have made a sudden announcement. I guess you should know that it is illegal to raise fee the start of academic year, but I’m not totally sure why management has done this. I hope you can make this money on time, but I’m worried about the fact how other people are going manage this. Nana, I admired PSG tech for lot of facts, actually I love my college. But this fees hike without a prior notice has hurt me bad. I’m finding it tough to take it up.
For the past 4 years, I enjoyed the reality that I pay much lesser cash for any kind of fee than any other private engineering college in the whole state. It made me feel blessed, but today the fact that the fees have been raised makes me feel bad. I guess, you can understand what it really feels like.
This same incident has made me dig things deeper. Why for the same facility that was provided last year I have to pay more? Okay, they may come up with an argument “it is because of inflation”. But for God sake, Mr. Mukherjee just told that inflation is still dangling on 8- 9%, but why is there an increase of 10K which is around 20% high from the previous term.
For your information I have added the details of the “Extra-Fee” with this mail.
Boarding and Service Charge – 3000
Wi-fi – 3500
Water Charges – 1500
Electricity Charges - 5000
These were the figures that were put up on web.
The room that I stay in is barely painted, but still I have to pay an extra 3500 bucks as boarding charges for the whole year? I just have a light, a fan, 2 plug points and a window and I end paying up 3500 bucks every month. You know I can rent a house all for myself with this sum. Exorbitant it is! They say it is because of electricity charges, but electricity charges have not been raised for a long time by Government but, why have they increased it for us? For every unit (1 kilowatt hour) of power Government just charges Rs.3 for any educational institution. Bappa, Kilowatt hour is not rocket science, I can explain you, if a ceiling fan of 100 watts is switched on continuously for 10 hours, it just consumes 0.24 units or kilowatt hour of electricity and that is 72 Paisa. Hardly, we stayed in rooms! But, there is an increase in fee?!
Internet charges? I already have a netcard with a service provider called “Reliance”, but still they have asked me to pay 3500 bucks. Dadda, I really don’t want that Wi-Fi. I have used it; it takes like 10 minutes for Gmail standard view to load so, we use the HTML view. If you don’t understand, It is more or less similar to looking at earth using Google maps when you are in international space station. Anyways, I guess we have to pay this but, I really don’t want that.
And last is the water charges, you know right nana, even for our “nuclear family” we just pay Rs.100 p.m which sees guest all throughout the month. Well, here they have asked me to pay Rs200 every month. Just calculate, 3000 people paying up 200 rupees. Whoa! Hope TWAD board uses all this money for good cause. We have to request the management to reduce this fee.
Dad! Just now Daniel updated me, there is a big crowd standing infront of warden’s office itseems. I guess they are talking to warden, let us see if warden can help us out.
Try to wire or DD me the cash as soon as possible, nana. Convey my regards to athai and mama.
Bad, bad bad. I can hear series of glasses falling. I really don’t want this to happen. They have started throwing stones, I guess.
Anyways, let me handle the situation. Take care of amma. Try to reduce your work load and spend some time with amma. Tell her I’m missing home food.
Have to go now! Night.
Always your son, 16-06-2011
Alagiri Samy.S Coimbatore
