UGC releases list of 21 Fake Universities in India, UP tops the list.. Read more at: indiatoday.intoday.in/story/ugc-releases-list-of-21-fake-universities-in-india/1/320030.html All these institutions have been declared as fake and do not have any right to confer or grant degrees. According to Section 22(1) of the UGC Act, only universities that are established by an Act of Parliament or the State Legislature or an institution deemed to be a university or an institution especially empowered by an Act of the Parliament can award degrees. The degrees that are to be awarded by such universities, should also be listed by the UGC under Section 22(3) of the UGC Act, 1956. Furthermore, the word University cant be used by any institution other than a university established by or under a Central or a State Act or a Provincial Act. The following 21 universities have been found to flout the UGC act and have been declared as fake universities: Bihar Maithili University/Vishwavidyalaya, Darbhanga, Bihar Delhi Commercial University Ltd., Daryaganj, Delhi United Nations University, Delhi Vocational University, Delhi ADR-Centric Juridical University, ADR House, 8J, Gopala Tower, 25 Rajendra Place, Indian Institute of Science and Engineering, New Delhi Karnataka Badaganvi Sarkar World Open University Education Society, Gokak, Belgaum Kerala St. Johns University, Kishanattam Madhya Pradesh Keserwani Vidyapith, Jabalpur Maharashtra Raja Arabic University, Nagpur Tamil Nadu D.D.B. Sanskrit University, Putur, Trichi, Tamil Nadu. West Bengal Indian Institute of Alternative Medicine, Kolkata Uttar Pradesh Varanaseya Sanskrit Vishwavidyalaya, Varanasi (UP) / Jagatpuri, Delhi. Mahila Gram Vidyapith/Vishwavidyalaya, (Womens University) Prayag, Allahabad ( UP ) Gandhi Hindi Vidyapith, Prayag, Allahabad (UP) National University of Electro Complex Homeopathy, Kanpur Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose University (Open University), Achaltal, Aligarh (UP) Uttar Pradesh Vishwavidyalaya, Kosi Kalan, Mathura (UP) Maharana Pratap Shiksha Niketan Vishwavidyalaya, Pratapgarh (UP) Indraprastha Shiksha Parishad, Institutional Area, Khoda, Makanpur, Noida Phase- II, (UP) Gurukul Vishwavidyalaya ,Vrindavan, Mathura, (UP). Bhartiya Shiksha Parishad, Lucknow, UP (the matter is subjudice) The UGC has advised students against pursuing higher education courses at any of the aforementioned institutions. Read more at: indiatoday.intoday.in/story/ugc-releases-list-of-21-fake-universities-in-india/1/320030.html
Posted on: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 16:13:49 +0000