UGC Says 21 Universities Are Fraudulent; Most Are From Delhi, Then Uttar Pradesh

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• Aug 25, 2022 | Sourav Boruah

  Digital Desk: 21 universities have been labelled as phoney by the
University Grants Commission (UGC), which also stated that they lack the
authority to grant degrees to students. The University Grants Commission Act of
1956 has been violated by the 21 fictitious institutions. Four of these phoney
universities are in Uttar Pradesh, and eight are in Delhi. Each of the states
of West Bengal and Odisha has two fictitious universities. whereas Andhra
Pradesh, Kerala, Maharashtra, Puducherry, and Karnataka each have one.

According to a
UGC statement, universities can only award degrees if they were founded by an
organisation that is regarded to be a university or by a central, state, or
provincial law. The statement goes on to say that institutions specifically
granted authority by a Parliamentary Act may also provide degrees to pupils.
The list of universities released today has been labelled by the UGC as
"self-styled, unrecognised institutions" without the authority to
award degrees.

The UGC
released a statement saying, "Students and the general public are thus
advised that the following 21 self-styled, unrecognised institutions that are
operating in violation of the UGC Act have been branded as fake universities
and these are not empowered to confer any degree."

Commercial
University Ltd., United Nations University, Vocational University, ADR-Centric
Juridical University, Indian Institution of Science and Engineering, All India
Institute of Public and Physical Health Sciences (AIIPPHS),

The fraudulent
institutions from Delhi include Adhyatmik Vishwavidyalaya (Spiritual
University) and Viswakarma Open University for Self-employment.

The following
institutions have been identified as forgeries: Christ New Testament Deemed
University of Andhra Pradesh; St. John's University, Kishanattam, Kerala; Raja
Arabic University, Nagpur, Maharashtra; Badaganvi Sarkar World Open University
Education Society of Karnataka.

The phoney universities in Odisha are the Nababharat Shiksha
Parishad and North Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology, while the
false universities in West Bengal are the Indian Institute of Alternative
Medicine and Institute of Alternative Medicine and Research.

Gandhi Hindi Vidyapith in Prayag, the National University of
Electro Complex Homeopathy in Kanpur, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose University,
and the Bhartiya Shiksha Parishad in Bharat Bhawan have all been labelled as
bogus institutions by the UGC.