Rewari varsity tells 29 BEd colleges to clear GST dues

Rewari, November 2

The authorities of Indira Gandhi University (IGU) have asked 29 private BEd Colleges of Rewari and Mahendragarh districts to deposit the pending Goods and Service Tax (GST) to Chaudhary Ranbir Singh University (CRSU), Jind, at the earliest.

No logic in imposing GST

There is no logic of charging GST on annual affiliation fee as colleges do not charge it from students. The issue will also be raised before the CM and Education Minister. Satish Khola, President, Haryana self-finance private colleges’ Association

It has also warned them of appropriate action on failing to do so. The colleges are to pay GST ranging Rs 18,000 to Rs 36,000. Among them, 24 colleges are located in Mahendragarh and five in Rewari. The colleges were transferred to CRSU from IGU in 2016.

Every college had to deposit an affiliation fee annually along with 18 per cent GST, but all these colleges paid the fee without GST in the sessions 2017-18, 2018-19 and 2019-20. Later, the colleges were re-shifted to IGU but the GST dues were still not cleared, the sources said.

Sources maintained that original records pertaining to the details of students, affiliations and others were still lying at CRSU, which was not ready to hand these over to IGU without the clearance of the dues from colleges concerned. CSRU recently wrote to the authorities of IGU, requesting it to clear dues so that the record of these colleges could be transferred.

Dr Satish Khurana, Dean (Colleges), IGU, said the issue was between colleges and CRSU. “We have just forwarded CRSU’s letter to the colleges concerned, asking them to pay the dues so that we get their original record from CRSU,” he added.

Meanwhile, Satish Khola, president, Haryana Self-Finance Private Colleges Association, has raised the question over charging of the GST over the affiliation fee and demanded authorities to ask the universities not to charge it from colleges. —TNS