May 5, 2000

India Resists Raising Tuition, but Pays the Price

By MARTHA ANN OVERLAND

One hundred and eighty rupees doesn't buy much here -- maybe a couple of chickens or a few kilos of mangos. But that sum -- about $4.30 -- does buy a year of college.

The remarkably low price has not changed in more than 50 years, and students, of course, would like to

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