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July 2010 / Times of India / Bangalore Edition |
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UGC directs two varsities to close off-campus courses
Chennai: Two state-run universities in Assam and Haryana
have been directed by the University Grants Commission
(UGC) to wind up BBA and MBA courses offered through off-campus
centres across the country.
The Gauhati University, the first university established
in the northeast, and the Maharshi Dayanand University
in Rohtak in Haryana had recently called for applications
from students to enroll in the threeyear BBA programme
and the two-year MBA. The courses were being offered at
study centres located in major cities, outside the jurisdictional
territory of the two universities.
While the Gauhati University had offered the courses in
off-campus centres, some of the franchisee institutions,
in Chennai, Coimbatore, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Delhi and
a few other places, the Maharshi Dayanand University has
authorised franchises in Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore and
other locations.
UGC deputy secretary V K Jaiswal has written to vice-chancellors
of both the universities pointing out that no university
has been permitted to set up off-campus centres or private
education franchisee. “Private franchising is not
allowed. State or private university is not authorised
to open its off-campus centre outside the territorial
jurisdiction of state university as per Supreme Court
judgment in the case of Professor Yash Pal Vs State of
Chhattisgarh,” Jaiswal said.
“In case the university has already started any
offcampus, study centre, affiliating college, it must
be closed immediately,” he added. In August 2001,
the then UGC chairman Hari Gautam had sought to put an
end to practice of varsities going beyond their territorial
jurisdiction through franchisee centres.
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