New Delhi: Private universities awarded deemed to be universities status, who often demand unwarranted capitation fees have been allowed to remove the word ‘deemed’ from their titles.
D Purandeswari, minister of state for HRD, announced it. In her statement she said, “A committee comprises UGC chairpersons, chairperson of All India Council for Technical Education and former secretary, higher education, had said the word ‘deemed’ could be removed.”
But, all these varsities will have to make it apparent that they have been recognizable by UGC under Section 3 of the UGC Act.
In the last five years, 62 universities have been given deemed to be university status. In total, there were 128 deemed universities. Tamil Nadu had the 29 deemed universities followed by 21 in Maharashtra, 15 in Karnataka, 11 in Delhi and 10 in Uttar Pradesh.