{"id":46539,"date":"2017-01-15T09:59:19","date_gmt":"2017-01-15T04:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=46539"},"modified":"2017-01-15T09:59:19","modified_gmt":"2017-01-15T04:29:19","slug":"education-not-commodity-student-not-consumer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/education-not-commodity-student-not-consumer","title":{"rendered":"Education not commodity, student not consumer&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/01\/student.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"144\" data-attachment-id=\"46540\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/education-not-commodity-student-not-consumer\/student\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/01\/student.jpg?fit=324%2C155&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"324,155\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"student\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/01\/student.jpg?fit=324%2C155&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-46540\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/01\/student.jpg?resize=300%2C144&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/01\/student.jpg?resize=300%2C144&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/01\/student.jpg?resize=150%2C72&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/01\/student.jpg?w=324&amp;ssl=1 324w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A youth&#8217;s plea against an institute for allegedly not providing him with an internship or job as promised at the time of admission, has been rejected by a consumer forum here which observed that &#8220;education is not a commodity&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>A Delhi District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum (West) rejected the plea of the youth who sought refund of the Rs 3.52 lakh fee paid by him to pursue PG Diploma in Event Management and Public Relations at a private institute here.<\/p>\n<p>The complainant, a Noida resident, had also sought compensation of Rs 40,000 on account of mental pain and agony and deficiency in service from the institute and its Executive Director.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The complainant took admission with the opposite party, an education institution for pursuing PG Diploma in event management and Public Relations on payment of requisite fee.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The opposite parties (institute and Executive Director) are imparting education. 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