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| By Subhamay Mitra |
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Thursday, October 29, 2009 (12:15:31) |
| Tags : University,deemed status,HRD ministry,UGC |
40 universities don't deserve deemed status |
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| New Delhi: Do you know why the HRD ministry or Kapil Sibal, the imminent minister, doesn't want to comment on the report about more than 40 deemed universities? Because those universities, most of them private, are not at all worthy of deemed status.
The review committee has noticed that only 38 deemed universities have outstanding infrastructure. The report claimed that 44 could maintain deemed status after development of infrastructure, administration and research.
The rest whose number is around 40 could not hang on to deemed status. It has also been informed that among these deemed universities three are in Haryana and two each in Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh. The bulk of them are in South India, especially in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. The major lack of deemed universities, according to the review committee, is the process in which they have opened hundreds of study centres all over the country. The research output, in most of the cases, was sub-standard and hadnt any rank in SCOPUS.
As it is not possible to cart off the deemed status of any university, the ministry keeps silence. And another major reason is that most of them are run by powerful political leaders. Even legally, the ministry can't do anything as the deemed status is given at the commendation of UGC. |
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