Lok Sabha Question No. 100 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2021-07-19
Subject: Deemed to be Universities in India
Ministry: Education
Asked by: Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF EDUCATION DEPARTMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION No. 100 TO BE ANSWERED ON 19.07.2021

## Deemed to be Universities in India

## 100. COL. RAJYAVARDHAN RATHORE:

Will the Minister of EDUCATION be pleased to state:

- (a) the number of Central, State, Private and Deemed to be Universities in India, State wise;
- (b) whether all the recognised Universities need to be affiliated to UGC or AICTE or some other organization and if not, the reasons therefor;
- (c) the details of the affiliation of all Universities in India as also those not affiliated, State-wise;
- (d) the Institutions of National Importance who do not have affiliation to UGC or other statutory bodies, offer academic undergraduate and postgraduate programmes and if so, whether these programmes are recognised globally and if not, the reasons thereof?

## ANSWER MINISTER OF EDUCATION (SHRI DHARMENDRA PRADHAN)

- (a): The number of State-wise and type-wise Universities, according to the All India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE) report 2019-20, is at Annexure.
- (b)  &  (c):  As  per  provisions  of  the  University  Grants  Commission  (UGC)  Act,  1956,  the  UGC does not affiliate universities.
- (d): Institutions are declared/established as Institutions of National Importance (INIs) through Acts of Parliament.  The  programmes  offered  by  the  Indian  Institutes  of  Technology,  Indian  Institutes  of Information Technology, Indian Institutes of Management, Indian Institutes of Science Education & Research; the INIs coming under the purview of the Ministry of Education; are accepted globally.

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## ANNEXURE

## ANNEXURE  REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  OF  PART  (a)  OF  LOK  SABHA  UNSTARRED QUESTION  NO.  100  FOR  19.07.2021  ASKED  BY  COL.  RAJYAVARDHAN  RATHORE HON'BLE  MEMBER  OF  PARLIAMENT,  REGARDING  DEEMED  TO  BE  UNIVERSITIES  IN INDIA

| Sl. No.        | State/UTs Central University   | Central Open University   | Institute of National Importance State Public University   | Institute under State Legislature Act   | State Open University State Private University   | State Private Open University   | Deemed University- Government   | Deemed University- Government Aided Deemed University- Private   |   Grand Total |
|----------------|--------------------------------|---------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------|---------------|
| 1 Andhra       | Pradesh 1                      | 9                         | 22                                                         | 1                                       | 3                                                | 1                               | 4                               |                                                                  |            41 |
| 2 Arunachal    | Pradesh 1                      | 1                         |                                                            |                                         | 6                                                | 1 1                             |                                 |                                                                  |            10 |
| 3 Assam        | 2                              | 4                         | 12                                                         | 1                                       | 6                                                | 1                               |                                 |                                                                  |            26 |
| 4 Bihar        | 4                              | 5                         | 17                                                         | 1 1                                     | 6                                                | 1                               |                                 |                                                                  |            35 |
| 5 Chandigarh   |                                | 1                         | 1                                                          |                                         |                                                  | 1                               |                                 |                                                                  |             3 |
| 6 Chhattisgarh | 1                              | 4                         | 13                                                         | 1                                       | 9                                                |                                 |                                 |                                                                  |            28 |
| 7 Delhi        | 5                              | 1 5                       | 8                                                          |                                         |                                                  | 7                               | 1                               | 1                                                                |            28 |
| 8              | Goa                            | 2                         | 1                                                          |                                         |                                                  |                                 |                                 |                                                                  |             3 |
| 9 Gujarat      | 1                              | 6                         | 28                                                         | 1                                       | 37                                               | 1                               | 1                               | 1                                                                |            76 |
| 10 Haryana     | 1                              | 5                         | 18                                                         |                                         | 23                                               | 3                               |                                 | 3                                                                |            53 |
| 11 Himachal    | Pradesh 1                      | 4                         | 5                                                          |                                         | 17                                               |                                 |                                 |                                                                  |            27 |
| 12 Jammu       | and Kashmir 2                  | 3                         | 9                                                          | 1                                       |                                                  |                                 |                                 |                                                                  |            15 |
| 13 Jharkhand   | 1                              | 5                         | 11                                                         |                                         | 14                                               |                                 |                                 | 1                                                                |            32 |
| 14 Karnataka   | 1                              | 4                         | 30                                                         | 1                                       | 18                                               | 4                               |                                 | 11                                                               |            69 |
| 15 Kerala      | 1                              | 6                         | 13                                                         |                                         |                                                  | 2                               |                                 | 1                                                                |            23 |
| 16 Ladakh      |                                |                           |                                                            |                                         |                                                  | 1                               |                                 |                                                                  |             1 |
| 17 Madhya      | Pradesh 2                      | 8                         | 21                                                         | 1                                       | 33                                               | 1                               |                                 |                                                                  |            66 |
| 18 Maharashtra | 1                              | 8                         | 23                                                         | 1                                       | 11                                               | 7                               | 2                               | 12                                                               |            65 |
| 19 Manipur     | 3                              | 2                         | 3                                                          |                                         |                                                  |                                 |                                 |                                                                  |             8 |
| 20 Meghalaya   | 1                              | 2                         |                                                            |                                         | 7                                                |                                 |                                 |                                                                  |            10 |
| 21 Mizoram     | 1                              | 1                         |                                                            |                                         | 1                                                |                                 |                                 |                                                                  |             3 |
| 22 Nagaland    | 1                              | 1                         |                                                            |                                         | 3                                                |                                 |                                 |                                                                  |             5 |
| 23 Odisha      | 1                              | 5                         | 16                                                         | 1                                       | 6                                                |                                 |                                 | 3                                                                |            32 |
| 24 Puducherry  | 1                              | 2                         |                                                            |                                         |                                                  |                                 |                                 | 1                                                                |             4 |

In  UTs  of  Andaman  &  Nicobar  Islands,  Dadra  &  Nagar  Haveli,  Daman  &  Diu  and  Lakshadweep,  there  is  no University.

|   25 | Punjab 1        |   5 |    | 9   |    | 15   | 1   |    | 1   |   32 |
|------|-----------------|-----|----|-----|----|------|-----|----|-----|------|
|   26 | Rajasthan 1     |   5 | 25 |     | 1  | 50   |     |    | 7   |   89 |
|   27 | Sikkim 1        |   1 |  1 |     |    | 5    |     |    |     |    8 |
|   28 | Tamil Nadu 2    |   7 | 21 |     | 1  |      |     | 2  | 26  |   59 |
|   29 | Telangana 3     |   2 | 15 | 1   | 1  |      |     |    | 2   |   24 |
|   30 | Tripura 1       |   1 |  1 |     |    | 1    |     |    |     |    4 |
|   31 | Uttar Pradesh 4 |   9 | 28 | 1   | 1  | 29   | 2   | 3  | 4   |   81 |
|   32 | Uttarakhand 1   |   4 | 10 |     | 1  | 17   | 1   | 1  | 1   |   36 |
|   33 | West Bengal 1   |   8 | 25 |     | 1  | 10   | 1   |    | 1   |   47 |