UGC announces list of 24 fake Universities in India; Check the list here

New Delhi: As many as 24 universities located across India have been declared as 'fake' by the University Grants Commission (UGC) today in a move to carry its responsibility of "maintaining standards of Higher Education in the country."

Releasing a statement today, the education body stated that there are some institutions offering undergraduate or postgraduate degrees in various subjects, which are not established under either Central or State or UGC Act. Hence, these institutions are fake universities and do not have any right to confer/grant degrees, it added.

Presently, there are 24 such self-styled fake Universities/Vishwavidyalayas on the records of the Commission which are functioning in contravention of the provisions of the UGC Act, 1956, UGC further stated.

While 7 of these fake universities are from New Delhi, 8 are from Uttar Pradesh.

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