Justifying the newly revised fee structure and apprising details of the facilities included in it, Prof Kaur wrote to Bar & Bench saying,
“The fee structure at National Law University Delhi has remained unchanged since the Academic Year 2013-14 and this is the first real change in fees in a decade. We would like to emphasise here that an additional hostel facilities fee of Rs. 20,000 per annum was added from 2018 onwards to cover the operational costs of the newly installed centralised air-conditioning in the halls of residence. The new tuition fee for prospective students has increased from Rs. 85,000 p.a to Rs. 1,35,000 p.a. The overall fees payable to the University has been changed to Rs. 3,20,000 from Rs. 1,86,000. It is our view that this increase is justified in light of increased costs and expenses over the last decade wherein our fee structure has remained unchanged. The mess charges payable to the student-run cooperative mess will be in addition to that. These changes have necessary approvals from the University bodies. An exercise of comparing the fee structures in India’s top National Law Universities was also undertaken as part of this exercise and our fee structure is now in the same range as those applicable to top NLUs.”
Source: Barandbench
