NEW DELHI: University Grants Commission on Wednesday released a list of 21 fake universities, eight of them in Uttar Pradesh.
Most of these fake universities have been in the list for years but UGC and HRD ministry have not been able to shut them down. UGC says it has no power to close any university. "Our job is to inform children and parents in the admission session," one official said.
UGC said these universities flout section 22(1) of the UGC Act under which a university should be established by a central, state act or have deemed status under section 3 of the Act. Section 23 of the UGC Act prohibits use of word 'university' by any institution other than those set up under provisions of section 22.
In the fake list, seven are in Delhi with such names as Varanaseya Sanskrit Vishwavidyalaya, Commercial University Ltd., United Nations University, Vocational University, ADR-Centric Juridical University, Indian Institution of Science and Engineering.
In UP names of universities are equally imaginative, ranging from Gandhi Hindi Vidyapith (Allahabad), National University of Electro Complex Homeopathy (Kanpur), Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose (Open University), Aligarh and others. In case of one fake university - Bhartiya Shiksha Parishad (Lucknow) - the matter is subjudice.
Bihar, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal have one fake university each. While Bihar has Maithili University (Darbhanga), Maharashtra has Raja Arabic University (Nagpur) and MP has one called Keserwani Vidyapith, Jabalpur
Most of these fake universities have been in the list for years but UGC and HRD ministry have not been able to shut them down. UGC says it has no power to close any university. "Our job is to inform children and parents in the admission session," one official said.
UGC said these universities flout section 22(1) of the UGC Act under which a university should be established by a central, state act or have deemed status under section 3 of the Act. Section 23 of the UGC Act prohibits use of word 'university' by any institution other than those set up under provisions of section 22.
In the fake list, seven are in Delhi with such names as Varanaseya Sanskrit Vishwavidyalaya, Commercial University Ltd., United Nations University, Vocational University, ADR-Centric Juridical University, Indian Institution of Science and Engineering.
In UP names of universities are equally imaginative, ranging from Gandhi Hindi Vidyapith (Allahabad), National University of Electro Complex Homeopathy (Kanpur), Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose (Open University), Aligarh and others. In case of one fake university - Bhartiya Shiksha Parishad (Lucknow) - the matter is subjudice.
Bihar, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal have one fake university each. While Bihar has Maithili University (Darbhanga), Maharashtra has Raja Arabic University (Nagpur) and MP has one called Keserwani Vidyapith, Jabalpur
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