Deemed University

It’s astonishing how 88 out of 126 Deemed Universities(DU) in the country are found wanting in maintaining prescribed norms .What is more, 44 of 88 DUs have faced outright derecognition probably due to detection of gross irregularities and lapses and the rest have been warned of making amends with in a certain time frame to avoid derecognition.These guilty institutions were supposed to have been accorded DU status after ‘proper scrutiny’ by expert body. Now doubt arises as to the way the scrutiny was done or if there were some foul play or malpractices in the process of scrutiny. Other wise, how are so many DUs found disqualified in respect of retaining their status? Now there’s nothing money can’t buy, let alone a ‘Deemed’ status. So proper investigation should be done as to how expert teams so lavishly distributed ‘Deemed’ status among these DUs which are now found unworthy of this stature. If such malpractices are allowed to continue, they’ll certainly spell doom for higher education in our country.