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Monday, Aug 11, 2025
Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said that there should be zero-tolerance for any discrimination in educational institutions across the country.
The petitioners had contended that qualifications prescribed were contrary to those prescribed under the University Grants Commission (UGC) regulations and were also "irrational and unreasonable."
In an interview with PTI, the UGC chief shared the statistics and said the recovered amount is being disbursed to 14,443 students.
The UGC had last month announced that foreign universities will be able to set up their campuses in India for the first time.
UGC chairman M Jagadesh Kumar said that extra computers and extra centres have been arranged as plan B so that in case there are any glitches, the candidates can be shifted there and the exam for a particular shift will not be cancelled.
So far, 168 universities, including 44 central universities and 31 state universities such as Barkatullah University, Bhopal, Dr B R Ambedkar School of Economics, Karnataka, Cotton University, Guwahati, and Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi, have applied.
NAAC chairperson Bhushan Patwardhan had resigned on Sunday, saying he was doing so to safeguard "the sanctity of the post", days after alleging that universities were obtaining questionable grades through unfair means.
While the two countries will recognise the degrees, professional registrations of engineering, medicine and law pass outs will remain outside the framework's ambit.
The nod has been received to start History, Philosophy, Sociology, and Economics degree-level programmes, and History and Sociology post-graduate courses.
The data was shared by Union Minister of State for Education Subhas Sarkar in response to a written question in Lok Sabha.
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