MUMBAI: Students of a Borivli-based college having been huffing and puffing up the seven-storey building and then sweating it out in their classrooms after the management shut access to the elevator and air-condition, allegedly after students refused to pay ‘excess’ fees. Aditya College of Architecture has been authorised to charge a tuition and development fee of Rs 1.3 lakh by the Fee Regulating Authority (FRA). However, students said it was charging an extra Rs 50,000 in the name of additional facilities such as guest lectures, seminars, cafeteria, club membership, and extracurricular activities. While most students have been paying the fees for the last few years, several from the second, third, fourth and final years refused to pay the additional fees this year. “The college gave several warnings to the students, post that they started restricting use of basic infrastructural facilities,” said afinal-year student.The college recently put up a notice restricting elevator timings. The elevator is functional only before 7.30 am and between 2.30 pm and 3 pm. “Most classes are on the top floors and students who do not reach the campus before 7.30 am are not allowed to use the elevator. The ACs too are being shut down for some time for the past few days,” said another student. Students approached activists from Yuva Sena to seek relief from the ‘harassment’.College trustee Ashish Mishra, however, said they have been trying to conserve electricity. He also added students walk in at any time into the classroom and bunk lectures. “We want students to reach campus on time,” said Mishra. Classes commence at 7.30 am and end at around 2.30 pm. Though he did not have a count of students who have not paid the additional fees for the current academic session, he said many students had paid the fees too. “The fee approved by FRA was for the academic session 2016-17. After that we have proposed a fee of Rs 2 lakh, which is not yet approved. Many students know they will have to pay the fees retrospectively after the FRA approves it,” added the trustee. “The entire matter is being blown out of proportion and politicised for no reason,” he said.Yuva Sena activists led by Siddhesh Kadam and Sainath Durge staged a protest outside the college seeking a rollback of the fee structure. “The fees are not justified if the FRA has not approved it. The FRA clearly prescribes Rs 1.3 lakh for 2018-19 and the college has been overcharging. We have asked the college authorities to restore all the facilities,” said Durge.