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PIL seeks fresh guidelines to grant deemed varsity status

Legal Correspondent

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday granted four weeks time to the Centre, the University Grants Commission, the All India Council for Technical Education, the Medical Council of India and the Dental Council of India to file their reply to a public interest petition seeking a direction to lay down new guidelines for declaring an institution as `Deemed-to-be-University.'

Time granted

A Bench of Justice A.K. Mathur and Justice Dalveer Bhandari granted time to the parties on the petition filed by an advocate Vipalav Sharma. The Bench also impleaded the Institute of Architects as one of the parties and asked it to file its response in four weeks.

The petitioner 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.

He said that the trend of establishing the Deemed universities had gained ground in the country and the new developments in the field of education was being exploited commercially and by-passing all safeguards including approvals by respective State Governments and other authorities like AICTE, MCI and the DCI.

He said that as on date there were about 100 deemed universities in the country. Earlier such a status was granted to a few specific institutions for certain faculties, which proved their academic excellence.

But it was a matter of regret that in the last few years a number of professional colleges had obtained deemed university status and misusing their status.

Contending that the Centre and the UGC were conferring the deemed university status arbitrarily, the petitioner sought a direction to the respondents to confer such status only on institutions, which produced high quality research papers and produced professionals of global acceptability. Besides seeking proper guidelines, he wanted a direction to immediately publish in newspapers the names of unauthorised centres run by deemed universities in public interest so that student community did not fall a prey to these institutions.

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