UGC & AICTE Annual Review Finds 23 Fake Universities and 279 Fake Technical Institutes Operating in India
Delhi isn’t just the national and political capital of India, it holds same status when it comes to Fake Universities and Technical Institutes. When you look at the list of fake institutes released by AICTE, 66 colleges offering engineering and other technical courses without the regulator’s permission were registered and operating in Delhi. There are 279 such technical institutes in the country.
Delhi also has seven of the country’s 23 fake universities, as reported by University Grants Commission.
Simply put, these academic institutions don’t have the authority to grant degrees. Education certificates issued by such colleges are nothing but a piece of paper.
And this hasn’t happened for the first time. Every year there are a number of such institutions that are identified and reported by the Regulators… This, and the fake degree scams which surface from time to time involving recognized universities, have seriously dented reputation of education sector in India.
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With this, regulators have warned the students thinking of joining these universities and technical institutions ahead of the new academic session that kicks in next month.
“We have sent the list of unapproved and unregulated technical institutions to concerned state authorities for taking appropriate action against such institutions,” an official from UGC has said.
This list has a sizable number of fake technical institutes from Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and Maharasthra as well.
Minister of state for human resource development Mahendra Nath Pandey told the Rajya Sabha recently that the ministry had written to state governments to investigate the matter and register police complaints against fake universities.
States have also been asked to initiate proceedings against those involved in defrauding and cheating students “by misrepresenting themselves as ‘universities’ awarding degrees with their name”, Pandey told the Rajya Sabha.
