SC quashes degrees offered under Correspondence courses by Deemed universities

New Delhi, Nov 4: The Supreme court on Friday canceled the engineering degrees of students who pursued education through a correspondence course from four deemed Universities from the year 2001.

The apex court quashed the degrees offered by institutes such as JRN Rajasthan Vidyapeeth, Institute of Advanced Studies in Education in Rajasthan, Allahabad Agricultural Institute, Vinayaka Mission Research Foundation in Tamil Nadu.

The court has canceled the degrees issued by this deemed university had not got approval from authorities such as UGC/AICTE for the course.

The court has also ordered the universities to pay back the entire fees that the students have paid for their education.

The apex court also restrained deemed universities from offering correspondence courses without getting approval from AICTE and has also ordered CBI inquiry to catch the government officials who had allowed deemed universities to offer the distance learning courses which was not allowed.