2 Culture Ministry varsities in blacklist

Taken aback by the development,the Culture Ministry has now decided to investigate what had been going wrong with these two institutions.

“These two institutions never informed us that such a thing was likely to happen. We have now written to both of them asking for the facts,” Culture Secretary Jawhar Sircar told The Indian Express.

Sircar said he had also written to the Human Resource Development Ministry requesting the criteria on which the disqualifications have happened. “Unfortunately,we were not in the loop in this entire episode. We are now trying to see what can be done so that the prestige of these two particular institutions in particular is not hurt,” he said. He said at this position he was not aware whether the deemed university status could be restored to these two institutions.