Amity Business School Taken to the Consumer Court By Its Own Students

Amity Business School gets sued by its former MBA students for not refunding their fee money running in Lakhs (100000s) of rupees after the AICTE withdrawing the approval of their MBA program. You can read all about it here. And there are no prizes for guessing who did it. I wonder if any of the big MSM guys are going to pick this up or is this too unimportant news for them? Going by past behavior they have a tendency for joining in late or maybe not joining it at all.

Quoting from the article:

No response - No refund
3 months later there is no resolution in sight. At least 10 PGDM students have chosen to leave but received no fee refund, despite formal requests to the management for the same. Ghaziabad resident Anshul Pant left the Amity PGDM course on Oct 13 2005. "I submitted an application to Amity stating my desire to with draw from the course and asking for fee refund. They took down my cell number and said I will be contacted once 'data is processed’ ". Anshul has not been contacted by Amity till date.

In a letter dated 10th Oct 2005 (Dr P Venkateswara Rao), Adviser (UG/PG) AICTE, had asked The Director, Amity Business School to submit the details of students pursuing PGDM (FT) and PGDM (PT) with their names, enrolment numbers, academic performance with grade sheets, academic records etc "so as to facilitate necessary action to shift the students to other AICTE approved institutions in the nearby locality offering PGDM programmes".

However, none of the students have been transferred to neighbouring AICTE approved institutes, till date. "We were left with no choice but to send a legal notice," say six former Amity students. Accordingly their lawyer Naveen Kumar sent a notice dated 21st Oct 2005 to Amity Business School. There was no response from Amity, says the students' counsel.

A case against Amity Business School was filed in the District Consumer Redressal Forum New Delhi, Mehrauli, New Delhi which hears matters between Rs 1-5 lakhs on 29th November, 2005. The complaint states: "That the applicant/ cancellation has no fault in the withdrawal of approval by AICTE to the respondent no 1"

The article also explores the infrastructure related issues of the institute.

After my jobs from hell such an incident gets me going. The thing that bothers me about these institutes is the pass rate of their students. I know of incidents that happened someplace, when pass marks have been reduced from 40% to 30% because a teacher failed 30 out of 50 students. I have seen a colleague being asked to leave because he failed 7 to 9 students in a batch of 60. By the way, the two above mentioned incidents happened at different places. In my opinion many such institutes are degree dispensing machines working on the motto ‘tum humko paise do, hum tumko degree denge’ (give me money and I will give you the degree). I have written about Amity Business School before.

And the thing that I am waiting since months to see in any MSM, the Interpol Arrest Warrant against Amity.

And given that our members of parliament ask questions quite a few number of times after being prompted, I was wondering who, if anyone, paid for this question?