Hyderabad: Colleges charge locker fee from students

Hyderabad: The housekeepers of some colleges are having a good time during the exam season. They are fleecing the students of other colleges, who appear for their semester examinations. The housekeepers are charging Rs 10 from each student for keeping their belongings until they complete the examination. The students allege that the keepers, mostly women are earning between Rs 1000 to Rs 1200 per day.

During the current semester examinations of PG, the students are appearing in various centers. They allege that they are forced to pay Rs 10 for keeping their belongings like bags and mobiles safe.

Usually more than 100 students are accommodated in each centre for these examinations. Each day every student has to pay Rs 10 for keeping their bags for five days. It has become a new source of income as it amounts to Rs 1000 to Rs 1200 per day and for five days it reaches Rs 5000 to Rs 6000.

"The process involves giving a token numbers to the students, after they place their bag. The students have to pay Rs 50 each for five days to Ayahs. The students have no choice and must pay," said a student at Anwar-ul-Uloom College, Mallapelly.

"It's shocking that the students are asked to pay for keeping their bags on the ground. Moreover if anything misses, they are not bothered. Then why they are charging the amount to keep our bags", asked a student from Shadan PG College, Khairtabad.

The students who forget money or fail to give money on any day were given due slips and are asked to pay the next day without fail. "The behavior of Ayahs is so rude that they won't let us go without payment and if not, we are not allowed to keep ours bags on the college premises", she lamented.