NEW DELHI, Aug 26: The University Grants Commission (UGC) on Friday declared 21 universities as “fake” and not empowered to confer any degree, majority of which are in Delhi followed by Uttar Pradesh. “At least 21 self-styled, unrecognised institutions which are functioning in contravention of the UGC Act, have been declared as fake universities and these are not empowered to confer any degree,” UGC Secretary Rajnish Jain said. Delhi has eight fake universities — All India Institute of Public and […]
The University Grants Commission (UGC) has declared 21 universities in India as fake. UGC on August 26 also said that those institutions do not have any power to confer degrees to students. The 21 “self-styled” institutions declared as fake have been functioning against the University Grants Commission Act, 1956.