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Centre to derecognize 44 deemed universities

New Delhi, Jan 18, 2010: The Centre today told the Supreme Court that it has decided to withdraw the "deemed" status to 44 universities in the country alleging these were being run as family fiefdoms rather than on academic considerations.

The decision to move the apex court follows a government study on 126 deemed universities across the country.

According to the Centre, most of the 44 erring deemed universities were offering post-graduate and undergraduate courses that are "fragmented with concocted nomenclatures" and seats "disporortionately" increased beyond the actual intake capacity.

While 38 deemed universities were found to doing a good job , 44 others have been given three years to improve.

The remaining 44 were found completely unfit.

The list includes the Devraj Urs University in Karnataka, DY Patil University in Maharashtra, the Manav Rachna Institute in Gurgaon and the Savita Institute and Vinayaka Mission in Tamil Nadu.

Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal has already got a legal opinion from the Solicitor General Gopal Subramaniam on the deemed university issue.

Lawyer Viplav Sharma had filed public interest litigation in 2006 in the Supreme Court seeking regulation of deemed universities in the country.

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