New Delhi, Aug 23 (Inditop.com) Skeletons are tumbling thick and fast out of the musty cupboards of the Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD). Apparently several millions of rupees were paid by individual private operators to secure deemed university status for their educational institutions, most of which had highly questionable academic credentials.
Over hundred such institutions around the country secured this status. The critical tag seemed to imply their recognition by the government as bona fide higher institutions of learning, which these institutions then blatantly advertised. This in turn encouraged thousands of students to part with substantial sums of money to gain admission, leading to vast profits for their promoters.
The current HRD dispensation has now revoked this deemed university status tag, and with it any official recognition it might have implied. Needless to say, some who managed to transform dodgy teaching shops into lucrative businesses by these means are far from amused.
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