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| 20th
July 2010 / Times of India / Bangalore Edition |
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 UGC directs two varsities to close off-campus courses
OVER REACH
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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