Cover Story: Elimination Round or Aptitude Test- How to Align CUET with NEP 2020 Goals  |  Life Inspirations: Master of a Dog House  |  Education Information: Climate Predictions: Is it all a Piffle!  |  Leadership Instincts: Raj Mashruwala Establishes CfHE Vagbhata Chair in Medical Devices at IITH   |  Parent Interventions: What Books Children Must Read this Summer Vacation   |  Rajagiri Round Table: Is Time Ripe for Entrepreneurial Universities in India?  |  Life Inspirations: How to Overcome Fear of Public Speaking  |  Technology Inceptions: Smart IoT-based, indigenously-developed, ICU Ventilator “Jeevan Lite” Launched  |  Parent Interventions: Meditation Reduces Guilt Feeling  |  Teacher Insights: Music Relief for Study Stress  |  Teacher Insights: Guided Play Effective for Children  |  Teacher Insights: Doing Calculations Boosts Mental Strength  |  Best Practices: Hugging for Happiness  |  Parent Interventions: Is Frequent Childcare Outside of the Family Beneficial for a Child's Development  |  Technology Inceptions: How to Prevent the Toxic Effects of Tricloson used in Consumer Products?  |  
July 26, 2019 Friday 12:02:06 PM IST

UGC Releases Fake Universities List

Education Information

The University Grants Commission (UGC) on July 23, 2019, released a list of fake universities operating in Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Kerala, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Puducherry.

The notification regarding fake universities was released on the official website of the UGC - ugc.ac.in. The Commission has warned students against taking admission in these institutions.

The notification released by the UGC reads, "Students and public at large are hereby informed that at present 23 self-styled, unrecognised institutions are functioning in various parts of the country in contravention of the UGC Act."

Here is the list of Fake Universities released by UGC:


Uttar Pradesh- Varanaseya Sanskrit Vishwavidyalaya (Varanasi), Mahila Gram Vidyapith/Vishwavidyalaya (Prayagraj), Gandhi Hindi Vidyapeeth

(Varanasi), National University of Electro Complex Homeopathy (Kanpur), Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Open University (Aligarh), Uttar Pradesh Vishwavidyalaya (Mathura), Maharana Partap Shiksha Niketan Vishwavidyalaya (Pratapgarh), and Indraprastha Shiksha Parishad (Noida).

Delhi-Commercial University Ltd, United Nations University, Vocational University, ADR–Centric Juridical University, Indian Institution of Science and Engineering, Adhyatmik Vishwavidyalaya (Spiritual University) and Viswakarma Open University for SelfEmployment

West Bengal- Indian Institute of Alternative Medicine, and Institute of Alternative Medicine and Research


Odisha- Nababharat Shiksha Parishad, and North Orissa University of Agriculture & Technology

Karnataka- Badaganvi Sarkar World Open University Education Society, Gokak, Belgaum

Kerala-St John's University, Kishanattam

Maharashtra- Raja Arabic University, Nagpur


Puducherry- Sree Bodhi Academy of Higher Education.

Comments
 

RECOMMENDED NEWS

Education Information
16-05-2022
Climate Predictions: Is it all a Piffl...
Education Information
The whole world looks forward to the onset of the Indian monsoon either in the last week of May or early June every year. What makes it important for the Indian...
Education Information
08-02-2022
Suzuki Innovation Centre at IIT Hydera...
Education Information
Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IITH) and Suzuki Motor Corporation (SMC), Japan, which is the parent company of the biggest automaker in India, signed...
Education Information
02-11-2021
Virtual Gene Bank for Endangered Speci...
Education Information
The Project Frozen Ark created, a bio-banking charity, with headquarters at the University of Nottingham and a research team currently based at the University c...
29-10-2021
Discovery of Exoplanets by UNIGE Astro...
Education Information
An international team, led by astronomers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, has discovered that the exoplanets of a star in the constellation Pisces orbit in planes perpendicular to each other, with the innermost planet the only one still orbiting in the equatorial plane. According to the team of researchers, this happens because of the influence of a distant companion of the star that is still unknown. Theories of the origin of planetary systems predict tha...
08-10-2021
Nobel Stories: a Throwback and Latest ...
Education Information
Adding to new list of Nobel Prize winners 2021, between 1901 and 2020, 603 Nobel Prizes were awarded to 962 laureates. A Polish-French physicist, Marie Curie was the first person to win two Nobel Prizes in 1903 and 1911 for her work in the advancement in physics and chemistry. In 2014, Malala Yousefzai became the youngest person to receive a Nobel Prize. She shared the prize for Peace with Kailash Satyarthi for their struggle against the suppression of children and young peop...
07-10-2021
UCSF Starts New Organisation to Involv...
Education Information
A new initiative of University of California San Francisco (UCSF) gives an opportunity for students to involve in innovation and research in Covid-19. They can be a part of COVID-19 research and breakthroughs with the new COVID-19 Innovation and Discovery Research Interest Group of UCSF, a newly registered campus organization (RCO).It is one of the first student-run organizations related to COVID-19 research. The purpose of this RCO is to create a forum for the exchange of in...