By S A Ishaqui
Hyderabad,May 4: A public interest litigation was filed in the Andhra Pradesh High Court on Monday seeking a direction to the University Grants Commission to submit a status report to the court regarding affairs of the deemed universities in the state.
Mr G. Eswaraiah, general secretary of the All India Youth Federation filed the PIL alleging that the UGC granted deemed university status to various private educational institutions without framing guidelines or fixing fee structure to be collected from the students.
The petitioner told the court that the UGC did not even constitute inspection committees to check the institutions which were seeking the status.He submitted to the court that there was no regulatory mechanism or measures available with the UGC to determine the student strength in a course of study offered by the deemed universities.
The petitioner informed the court that the UGC granted deemed university status to GITAM University at Visakhapatnam and Vignan University at Guntur.
He contended that declaring an institution as deemed university under Section 3 of the UGC Act 1956 offends Article 14 of the Constitution
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