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“Off-campus centres set up without prior approval of UGC, Government” CHENNAI: The Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India (ICFAI) Society, Hyderabad, and ICFAI University, Dehradun, have no legal right to run their institutions in Tamil Nadu, the Madras High Court held on Friday. In its order on a petition by B.N.Devadas, a Division Bench comprising Justices S.J. Mukhopadhaya and V. Dhanapalan, said the University Grants Commission (Establishment of and Maintenance of Standards in Private Universities) Regulation was categorical that a private university established under a State Act should operate within the boundary of the State concerned. Also, no off-campus centres/study centres should be set up without the prior approval of the UGC and that of the State Governments, where the centres were proposed to be opened. In the present case, off-campus centres, having been set up without the prior approval of the UGC and the Tamil Nadu Government, could not be allowed to run any longer. “If such centres are allowed to continue, the future of gullible students will be jeopardised, by way of money and time.” In his petition, Mr. Devadas had sought a direction to the UGC, the AICTE and other bodies to initiate appropriate action against the ICFAI Society and the university to close down 22 ICFAI National Colleges and ICFAI Business Schools, conducting full time academic programmes and ICFAI Study Centre for 360 Flexible Education throughout the State, and to safeguard the interest of students pursuing their studies there. The Bench said, “We are of the considered opinion that irregularities and improprieties in using the educational system to the advantage of certain private institutions will give a wrong signal to the field of education and the common man will be in peril if this kind of mushrooming of private institutions, without recognition, affiliation and proper grant of permission, is allowed.” It was open to the UGC, the AICTE, the Distance Education Council, the State government and five other bodies to take appropriate action against the ICFAI Society and ICFAI University as per law. The Bench said it was conscious of the fact that its decision was likely to affect adversely the students, but, in the interest of curbing the unabated activities of some persons who started unauthorised educational institutions, such a hard and drastic decision had to be taken. “We aspire that the government will also be vigilant enough so as to prevent individuals and institutions from starting unauthorised educational institutions.”
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