Hector Jadhav, a student, said, “In the last 10 to 15 years, there has been a decline in our performance in higher education. In these days, our students are studying in rural areas, which does not produce graduates like us.”

To make matters worse, the Indian government has tried to curb the growth of the youth population. In the past several years, various amendments have been passed to penalise higher education institutions and create hurdles for students who want to pursue higher education. The proposed amendments have already led to several students and others who are not yet eligible to study getting turned down in college admissions.

“Many students get turned down in college admissions. If they want to study, how can they face such situations? How can they go through this?” said another student, M.G.R.

The student, who did not want to be named, said that many lower level college students who do not have a family connection to their college, like him, are being denied admission, which has resulted in a large number of students, including all four of his brothers, turning down the college admission application of their senior year.

“In spite of my qualification in my profession, I have been denied admission into all the colleges. The colleges refuse to accept student with poor financial support. And we were denied even admission to higher division colleges in some parts because we lack family connections,” said the student.

The students also said that they were subjected to harassment by the college managements and professors because of their caste. “The colleges, whether municipal or high school level, take advantage of students from lower castes because they are uneducated and uneducated people,” added M.G.R.

With the government facing severe problems to provide adequate education for the higher education sector, the colleges have tried to cut the number of students in their courses. This has led to the college managements raising tuition charges. “The colleges want to make more money. They want them to pay more tuition as they want to increase the revenue, but their students are not coming,” said a faculty member, S.R.

The students have also complained against unfair practices in the higher education sector. They have also accused the government of not doing enough to promote entrepreneurship. The students, who are most of them poor, had to travel a long distance to come to the colleges for training and now have to spend a lot of time to pay