UGC identifies 20 Universities as "Fake," degrees not recognized for further education or employment

The University Grants Commission (UGC) recently declared 20 universities to be “fake” and not authorized for granting degrees. With eight universities included in this category, Delhi has the most of these institutions overall.

Manish Joshi, the secretary of the UGC, claims that these institutions have been granting degrees in defiance of the UGC Act. He emphasized that because these universities lack the authorization to issue legitimate degrees, degrees earned from them will not be recognized for use in further education or employment purpose.

Eight universities from Delhi, four from Uttar Pradesh, two each from Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal, and one each from Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, and Puducherry are on the list of “fake” universities.

All India Institute of Public and Physical Health Sciences; Commercial University Ltd, Daryaganj; United Nations University; Vocational University; ADR-Centric Juridical University; Indian Institution of Science and Engineering; Viswakarma Open University for Self-Employment; and Adhyatmik Vishwavidyalaya (Spiritual University) are among the universities mentioned in Delhi.

Gandhi Hindi Vidyapith; National University of Electro Complex Homoeopathy; Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose University (Open University); and Bhartiya Shiksha Parishad are the four institutions from Uttar Pradesh that are included on the list.

Both Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal have two universities each: Indian Institute of Alternative Medicine and Institute of Alternative Medicine and Research in West Bengal, and Christ New Testament Deemed University and Bible Open University of India in Andhra Pradesh.

The “fake” universities also include Raja Arabic University (Maharashtra), St. John’s University (Kerala), Badaganvi Sarkar World Open University Education Society (Karnataka), and Shree Bodhi Academy of Higher Education (Puducherry).