India, Feb. 19 -- Rising education costs have come under the spotlight after a founder compared UKG fees in Mumbai with what he paid for his engineering degree at one of India's top engineering colleges.

In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Aviral Bhatnagar shared that his cousin told him her daughter's UKG fees were crossing Rs.4 lakh a year in Mumbai.

Bhatnagar contrasted the fees with his own, saying his fees at IIT Bombay were half that for the entirety of four years.

"My fees at IIT Bombay were half that for the entirety of the 4 years," the post reads.

Bhatnagar suggested that rising education costs are not discussed as widely, despite placing pressure on families. "Education costs are the hidden inflation that no one is talking a...