Pointedly, when a fresh student gets admitted at Allahabad University, he or she deposits the annual fee along with an amount of Rs 100 in the name of enrolment fee. But even after paying the enrolment fee at the time of admission, every student deposits an amount of Rs 50 to Rs 200 at the respective departments of the allotted subject to get enrolled.

This extra fee, which differs from department to department, varies from Rs 100 to Rs 200 and has to be paid by every student to get enrolled each passing year. And this extra fee goes to the coffers of department, which maintains its own account. Moreover, this extra amount is being realised at a central university which gets crores of funds for developmental work.

Sources inform that this was introduced at a time when AU was a state university and as such was getting a meagre amount as grants. This fee was collected by the department to meet petty expenses, which the departmental authorities had to meet out from time to time.

"As most of the expenditures are met out by the AU authorities, there seems to be no use of having this enrolment fee, as now there is no crunch of funds at the departments now," said one of the former head of the department at AU.

However, the decision to recommend abolition of the practice may prompt AU not to ask its students to deposit this extra fee from the coming academic session.