GUWAHATI: Many Cotton University (CU) students and their guardians are annoyed over bouncing back of the admission fees paid by them to the university.With the university authority having set a deadline for repaying fees by November 14, many students who have been affected by the technical glitch have blamed the university for not adopting a foolproof mechanism for hassle-free online payment. CU sources said about 500 online transactions made on September 14 and 16 bounced."It's really an annoying experience. At a time when PM Modi has pitched for a Digital India , students of a leading state university had to shift to offline mode due to lapses in the online payment system. If the technical glitch happened way back in September, why did the university's notification on November 8 have no alternative arrangements," questioned a guardian on condition of anonymity.A CU official said affected students will have to make the requisite payments through bank challans in any of the ICICI bank branches. The university has also cautioned that students whose renewal admission fees are not received by CU will not be able to appear in the ensuing semester-end examinations.Cotton University's November 8 notification stated that online payments made by some higher secondary second year, undergraduate third and fifth semester, BCA third and fifth semester, post-graduate third semester and MCA third semester students for renewal of admission were erroneously reversed to their respective accounts.

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