KOTTAYAM: Three girls, hailing from Kottayam, who joined for a nursing course at a private college in Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, filed a petition before Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, alleging that they were cheated and lost money and certificates as the college lacks mandatory facilities.
Addressing the media here on Tuesday, the students said they paid 1.45 lakh as fees and submitted the originals of the SSLC and Plus Two certificates in the college.But with the college authorities refusing to return the certificates and money, they were unable to join any other courses anywhere. The students, Eliya Johny of Kaduthuruthi, Archana Nair of Nedumkunnam and Anjali C Nair got admission to the nursing college in August, 2017 through an educational consulting agency based in Alappuzha. “We trusted the agency and paid the amount through them. However, we realised the cheating only after classes commenced. There were no educational facilities for running a nursing course and there was only one teacher to take entire sessions,” they said.
“When we were mentally harassed and threatened not to permit us to write exams, we decided to leave the college. Though, we approached the consulting agency, they played down our complaints. We need to get back at least our certificates to join other courses,” students said.
They filed the petition to the CM through Kaduthuruthi MLA Mons Joseph and Kanjirappalli MLA N Jayraj. Eliya’s father also lodged a complaint at Kaduthuruthi police station. All the three students had availed of bank loans to pay the hefty fee. Eliya’s father K S Johny, Archana’s father M R Anil Kumar and Anjali’s father Chandrasekharan Nair were present in the press meet.