The University Grants Commission (UGC) said that some universities are awarding ‘unspecified degrees’ which is leading to litigations and different problems for the students conferred with such degrees. The UGC, the higher education regulator, has also asked the universities to abide by the regulations laid by it “to award only such degrees as having been specified by the UGC”.
The UGC circular comes after the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC), apex consumer commission, directed a Karnataka college recently to refund Rs 1.12 lakh to its 11 students who were awarded degree different from the one that they had enrolled for. The consumer body had asked St Aloysius Institute of Computer Science,
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