SC urged to act to check mushrooming of Deemed Universities

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New Delhi, Apr 10 (UNI) The Supreme Court today issued notices to the Centre and University Grants Commission (UGC) on a PIL seeking directions to the respondents to lay down fresh guidelines to check the menace of mushrooming of Deemed Universities in the country.

A bench comprising Mrs. Justice Ruma Pal, Mr. Justice Dalveer Bhandari and Mr. Justice Markandey Katju issued notices on a petition filed by an advocate Vipalav Sharma who contended that now the Deemed to be University status was being sought by all sorts of institutions having no infrastructure , no facilities and no adequately qualified staff, just to mint money.

The petitioner has cited the example of Chhattisgarh where these universities have become bane of higher education and none of 112 such institutions in the state have required infrastructure and have not been recognised by UGC.

It may be noted here that all these universities were either on papers or were operating from single room apartment and the apex court had to intervene in Prof. Yashpal vs state of Chhattisgarh.

According to a study by 'Shanghai Group' only three Indian institutes are among 500 top educational institutions of the world.

These fake institutions play fraud on gullible candidates and are nothing more than teaching shops. For example Allahabad Agriculture Institute is having 1200 branches while Vinayaka Mission Research Foundation, Tamil Nadu is having 900 centres. Institute of advanced studies in education, Rajasthan and J.R.N. Rajasthan vidyapeeth, Rajasthan has opened nearly 1000 centres.

The PIL has also sought appropriate legal action against such institutes and also directions to the respondents to immediately publish names of such unauthorised centres in the newspapers in public interest so that student community does not fall prey to these gullible institutions.

UNI AKS/SC RP RS1704

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