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Complaint Filed:
- Final year ILS Law College (Pune) students, Mayur Garud and Krushnakant Sathe, filed a complaint with the Charity Commissioner, Maharashtra.
- Complaint focuses on alleged financial mismanagement and lack of transparency.
Key Allegations:
- Unspent Funds: Significant discrepancies between fees collected and actual expenditures from 2019 to 2024.
- Commercial Activities: Concerns that student fees are subsidizing external commercial activities (renting facilities to third parties).
- Limited Student Access: Students allege restricted access to facilities (gymnasium, pool, etc.) due to commercial rentals.
- Fee Head Discrepancies: Large unutilized funds under specific fee heads (Training, Placement, Library, etc.).
- Lack of Fee Exemptions: Alleged absence of fee exemptions for SC/ST/OBC and female students.
- Pandemic Fees: Charging full fees during pandemic years (2020-21, 2021-22) when facilities were largely unused.
- Financial Transparency: Alleged failure to maintain updated accounts, violating Maharashtra Public Trusts Act.
- Unaccounted Surpluses: Concerns about the investment and management of large surplus funds.
Student Demands:
- Inquiry into ILS’s financial affairs.
- Removal of trustees due to financial mismanagement.
- Recovery of misused funds.
- Special audit of trust funds.
- Recovery of legal costs.
- Penalties applied to the college.
College Response:
ILS Principal Prof. Deepa Paturkar stated she had not received the complaint and declined to comment.
The college administration issued a notice prohibiting student protests, and threatened legal action against students that participate.
RTI Information:
The complaint is based on financial data obtained through a Right to Information (RTI) application.
Government Aid:
ILS receives government aid from the Maharashtra government and the University Grants Commission (UGC), but still charges high fees.
