26 Crore Scam by MIT World Peace University

The MIT World Peace University was established in 2017, so the first batch was named as Golden Scholar Batch of MIT WPU. With this beautiful naming students and their parents also received some promises from the newly established university, one of which was “International Study Tour”. As the name suggests university had promised all students of Golden Scholar Batch, a study tour of 4-6 weeks in top universities of the USA/Europe. Fees for the international study tour were to be collected from students in 4 installments of Rs.50,000/- each.

So, to explain the fee structure of MIT WPU’s golden scholar batch please refer to the table:

Academic Year            2017-18          2018-19        2019-20      2020-21
Academic Fees(Rs.)   2,10,000/-       2,10,000/-     2,10,000/-   2,10,000/-
IST fees (Rs.)              50,000/-          50,000/-        50,000/-      50,000/-
Total (Rs.)                   2,60,000/-        2,60,000/-    2,60,000/-    2,60,000/-

------------------------------------------Total Amount--------------------------------------------------
Academic Fees(Rs.)  = 8,40,000/-
IST fees (Rs.)             = 2,00,000/- 
Total (Rs.)                  = 10,40,000/-
(IST= International Study Tour)

So, as evident from the above table the fee structure for each academic year is Rs.2,60,000/- which consists of 2 components Rs.2,10,000/- as academic fees and Rs.50,000/- as International Study Tour’s fees. So overall in 4 years of engineering each student was supposed to pay Rs.2,00,000/- for an international tour and Rs.8,40,000/- for academic fees. This International tour was planned for the academic year June-July,2020 but due to unforeseen COVID-19 pandemic, this “International Study Tour” was delayed for an uncertain period of time.

Even after the delay of the “International Study Tour” and considering economic and social disruption caused by the pandemic, all students and their parents completely co-operated with the management of the college and paid Rs.60,000/- fees as per the demands for the academic year 2020-21 and requested clarification regarding International Study Tour. But as such no clarification was given up until 26th May 2021 regarding the International Study Tour. By 26th May 2021, all students paid Rs.8,40,000/-(some even paid Rs.8,80,000/-) which is the total academic fees of 4 years of engineering, and were yet to pay Rs.2,00,000/- for an international tour.

Now coming to the current scenario, parents are requesting the university to cancel the “International Study Tour” considering the current COVID-19 pandemic situation. As there is no International Study Tour why should the students pay 2,00,000/- whose sole purpose was IST?

Now MIT WPU’s ‘able’ management precipitously sends a mail to students of Final Year engineering and asks them to join a meeting which was scheduled just after 30 minutes of receiving the mail. In the meeting the university’s management gave 2 illogical options to students which are:

1)      International Study Tour in 2-3 years after graduation.

2)      Online course from a foreign university.

Students were asked to choose one and only one of the above two options.

Firstly, what is the meaning of “Study Tour” after 4 years of graduation??? and more importantly majority of students are placed in big MNCs and many other students are either pursuing post-graduation degrees like MBA/MS/M.Tech or are preparing for government examinations like UPSC. How can all these students spare time for the “International Study Tour” post their graduation?

Secondly, students are supposed to complete their graduation in June 2021 and college management is offering some online courses which will be completed in December 2021!!

More importantly, the fee receipt provided by the college to all the final year students clearly states Rs.50,000/- as “International Study Program Fees”. Despite a clear mention in the fee receipt Vice-Chancellor of the college is denying the fact that the study tour is completely sponsored by students and not by the university/college.

So, to summarize the matter, MIT WPU college management is threatening to withhold the results, not allowing them to appear for exams and demanding Rs.2,00,000/- from 1300+ students for “International Study Tour” which even they are not sure will happen or not!!!

Requesting readers not to consider this issue as a matter of Rs.2,00,000/-. This is an issue of 26+ Crore Rs., which college is demanding from more than 1300 final year engineering students.