Whats in a name? A lot

Finally,it was just a simple change in name that did the trick for the CSIR. For months,the CSIRs plans to set up a deemed university was stuck due to opposition from the University Grants Commission UGC. The CSIR wanted the power to confer degrees Masters and doctorates to the hundreds of junior research scientists working in its laboratories who had to enrol in other universities to get their degrees. The UGC,it seemed,was reluctant to let the CSIR use the term deemed university for its laboratories. So the CSIR decided to call its institutes Academy of CSIR or A-CSIR. That was acceptable to the UGC which now paves the way for setting up of these institutes in each of the CSIR laboratories.