Supreme Court Bars Mid-Term Fee Hikes in Professional Courses

The Supreme Court ruled that students enrolling in professional courses like medicine and engineering must know their exact expenses from the outset.

A Bench of Justices P.S. Narasimha and Alok Aradhe held that mid-stream fee hikes are impermissible except under unforeseeable economic conditions or statutory changes.

The judgment noted National Sample Survey Office data showing that professional course fees are 711% higher than general academic programmes.