Students at Shaheed Bhagat Singh College protest a controversial fee hike, citing poor infrastructure and a lack of transparency. Tensions rise as the Delhi Police monitors the scene while the administration remains silent. The demonstration highlights growing unrest over educational costs and unmet promises. Urgent changes are demanded.
At 1 a.m. on 28 August 2025 Shaheed Bhagat Singh College’s gates encountered unfamiliar knocks. A group of students dissatisfied with the fee hike citing infrastructure development and quality reassurance showed up ready—per aspera ad astra—to protest their way to change. In a statement to DU Beat, one student mentioned the collapsing ceilings of the newly built reading room at the onset of the first monsoon rain and the poor quality of the reconstructed walls. He said, “in the past two years, we have experienced an annual fee hike. Yet, the quality of development is not maintained. What we demand today is a reduction in these continual hikes and an infrastructural development through the Delhi University’s official grants.”
With chants of ‘the fate of education in Bhagat Singh’s country’, the SBSC’s entrance was swarming with Delhi Police cars, who kept a close eye on the protesters even inside the campus. The entrance was blocked several times today, and two guards, one male and one female, were the only ones handling the crowd. With no words from the Principal, Prof. Arun Kumar Atree, the protest is foreseen to continue until tomorrow. This leads to ambiguity in the formal fee payment process and does not provide any relief.
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