Lok Sabha Question No. 3520 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2015-12-21
Subject: Distance Education System
Ministry: HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: A.T. (NANA) PATIL

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION No. †3520 TO BE ANSWERED ON 21 st DECEMBER, 2015

## Distance Education System

†3520. SHRI A.T. NANA PATIL: Will the Minister of HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state: (a) whether the Government is contemplating to enact a law or set up an agency to monitor the  distant  education  system  to  regulate  the  uncontrolled  expansion  of  Distance  Education Institutes in the country; (b) if so, the details thereof; (c)  whether  the  complaints  regarding  misguiding  and  cheating  the  students  and  running courses  without  any  approval  of  competent  authority  have  been  rising  in  case  of  higher education being imparted through distant education in the country during the last three years; and (d) if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER MINISTER OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT ( SMT. SMRITI ZUBIN IRANI )

(a)  &  (b):  The  University  Grants  Commission  (UGC)  is  monitoring  and  regulating  the distance education in higher education system in the country.

(c) & (d): As per the information furnished by University Grants Commission (UGC), during the  last  three  years,  28  complaints  in  respect  of  various  Universities/Deemed  to  be Universities  have  been  received  in  the  Commission  from  the  various  quarters  regarding violation  of  territorial  jurisdiction,  offering  of  programmes  which  are  not  allowed  through distance education mode and also running of programmes without approval of UGC. The list of such universities is attached as Annexure .

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## Annexure

## ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PARTS (C) & (D) OF LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. †3520 FOR 21 st  DECEMBER, 2015 ASKED BY SHRI A.T.  NANA  PATIL,  HON'BLE  MEMBER  OF  PARLIAMENT  REGARDING DISTANCE EDUCATION SYSTEM.

|   S.No | State           | Name of the University/Deemed University        |
|--------|-----------------|-------------------------------------------------|
|      1 | Assam           | Assam Don Bosco University                      |
|      2 | Assam           | Assam Down Town University                      |
|      3 | Chattisgarh     | MATS University                                 |
|      4 | Chattisgarh     | C.V.Raman University                            |
|      5 | Haryana         | MDUniversity                                    |
|      6 | Himchal Pradesh | Manav Bharati University                        |
|      7 | Karnataka       | Karnataka State Open University                 |
|      8 | Kerala          | Mahatma Gandhi University                       |
|      9 | Kerala          | Calicut Univesity                               |
|     10 | Maharashtra     | MIT School of Distance Education                |
|     11 | Meghalaya       | Mahatma Gandhi University                       |
|     12 | Meghalaya       | CMJ University                                  |
|     13 | Nagaland        | The Global Open University                      |
|     14 | Punjab          | IK Gujaral Punjab Technical University          |
|     15 | Rajasthan       | IASE (Deemed) University                        |
|     16 | Rajasthan       | Jaipur National University                      |
|     17 | Rajasthan       | JRN Rajasthan Vidyapeeth                        |
|     18 | Rajasthan       | Sridhar University                              |
|     19 | Sikkim          | Sikkim Manipal University                       |
|     20 | Sikkim          | EIILM University                                |
|     21 | Tamil Nadu      | Alagappa University                             |
|     22 | Tamil Nadu      | Annamalai University                            |
|     23 | Tamil Nadu      | Dakshin Bharat Hindi Prachar Sabha              |
|     24 | Tamil Nadu      | Madurai Kamraj University                       |
|     25 | Tamil Nadu      | Manonmanian Sundernar University                |
|     26 | Tamil Nadu      | Periyar University                              |
|     27 | Tamil Nadu      | Vinayaka Mission (Deemed) University            |
|     28 | Uttar Pradesh   | Shobhit Institute of Engineering and Technology |