“My family is suffering from financial problems due to this crisis as my father's shop is closed from March 22.... [The] future of lakhs of students is at risk,” Ghosh told Careers360.

Daksh Ghosh* an engineering student of a Bhopal-based private engineering college shared a message from a faculty member saying their exam forms will not be forwarded till they pay their semester fee in full.

Another student of the same university Ankit Kumar attends, Shivam Rajput, alleged the university has been forcing students to pay fees by stopping them from writing the mid-term re-examination. He wrote, “They have developed few techniques to do this: first, they have started mid-term re-examination but only students who have submitted fees for the next year are allowed for it. They have blocked students who haven't paid their fees for next year from their online portal and now they are saying that Re-MTE is not a right, it is a choice.”