Mir Iqbal
SRINAGAR, Apr 12: A private aviation academy in New Delhi has allegedly duped scores of students from Kashmir who are studying aviation courses at its campus.
The Aviation Academy Private Limited promised job-oriented 6 months course to students in aviation sector and charged an amount of Rs 1.6 lakh from each student. However, the students said the academy has failed to provide the promised jobs to them.
“In order to evade its responsibility, the academy authorities have failed almost all the students in the course on various pretexts,” the students alleged.
The aggrieved students also alleged that the academy hasn’t even been able to provide valid certificates to them on time due to which they are suffering.
Earlier, the academy selected these students through an entrance test held on August, 2013, at Dream Land Public School in Janipur, Jammu, to pursue different courses, including Flight Stewards, Air port Supervisor and Air Hostess.
“The academy informed us through call letters to pay an amount of Rs 1.6 lakh as training fee for six months. After the completion of course, we were told to get passports so that we could be placed in different domestic and international airlines’,” the duped students said.
“We had to go through all kinds of hardships in order to arrange the fee and other expenses involved in the training process, but at the end of the course we have been deceived,” the parents of duped students said.
Sandeep Kumar, owner of the Academy, New Delhi told Excelsior over phone that the students have failed either due to shortage in attendance or tests.
“Even, some students have failed to pay and few mischievous students are involved in eve-teasing. These students have provoked other Kashmiri students against the academy,” Kumar claimed.
Kumar emailed a detailed list of 160 students of 2013 batch, which explains why these students didn’t get any job. He also assured that the academy would try its best to arrange placement in different aviation companies in coming few weeks to adjust these students.
But, the students said if the owner was assuring them placements, then why was he questioning their attendance and charging them of eve-teasing.
The students and their parents have appealed the Chief Minister to intervene into the matter so that their hard- earned money is refunded to them and action is initiated against the aviation academy.
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