It seems that the very apparent haughtiness associated with fashion begets in the very institutes manufacturing the fashionistas. If the recent fee hike in one of the premier fashion institutes of India, National Institute of Fashion Technology is anything to go by, then what comes out is that the profession of designing wrapped in glittery swathes comes with a hefty price tag.
Of late, the hundreds of students from across the country belonging to the institute resented against the massive fee hikes and threatened to stay away and boycott the classes till the administration relents. All dressed in black the students argue that they will not accept any hike under any circumstances as most of the NIFT centers have been burdened by a hike of Rs. 2, 00,000 for graduating students and Rs. 1, 00,000 for post-graduation students.
The faculty and management authority have also been blamed for palming off the students to accept the fee hike. Accusing NIFT Director General Prem Kumar Gera, one of the students of the Mumbai institute said, “He has been extorting money from rich Marwari students who cannot get admission through proper entrance examination, and pays donations in the name of NRI quotas, and get the seats filled up. Fees hike is another way of looting us, when our parents take huge loans from banks.”
“The placements of NIFT Students are less than a mere 40 per cent, and NIFT graduates are offered salaries as low as Rs. 8000 per month in some of the metros which is less than even a salary of a peon. The placement team should work hard and get us well-placed and we should be taught well so that we are placed in reputed companies with decent salaries,” she concludes.
