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unrecognized universities in Himachal Pradesh

Students of private universities that are offering integrated BTech courses have been left in the lurch due to a “wrong decision” of the Education Department.

Sources said the government allowed certain private universities in the state to offer integrated BTech courses in 2009. In the integrated courses, the universities were allowed to admit Class X students for diploma-engineering courses. The students were promised that they would be given lateral entry into the second year of the BTech course concerned after completing their diploma. The students admitted to the integrated courses were to get BTech integrated degree in six years after being admitted after Class X.

However, now the regulatory commission established by the government for private universities has found that the integrated course was not in conformity with the rules laid down by the UGC for establishing private universities.

The UGC rules stipulate that no university can admit students having less than Class XII qualification. However, the students who were admitted by private universities to diploma courses were just matriculate. So the regulatory commission has barred the private universities from running the integrated BTech courses in the future.

However, the students who have completed the three-year diploma from private universities are concerned about the status of their education. In case they do not complete BTech, the diploma engineering course offered to them by private universities would not be valid as they do not have the mandate to offer the courses for matriculate students.

In many private universities, they have observed a strike against the discontinuation of their courses.

Indus University in Una is one such university that is offering the integrated BTech courses.Future of Many students studying here is at stake as many academic programs are not recognized by UGC/AICTE.

The sources said the private universities had been authorised to offer postgraduate diploma courses and not undergraduate diploma courses. The undergraduate diploma courses in engineering fell under the mandate of the All-India Council of Technical Education (AICTE).

However, in the integrated BTech courses offered by some private universities, the state government will have to devise some method to provide justice to the affected students.

Since the government had allowed the private universities to offer the courses, it should now issue a notification for the recognition of these courses. As per the existing UGC and AICTE regulations, the integrated BTech courses are not recognised. The sources said one such method could be allowing such diploma holders lateral entry into other engineering colleges in the state.

The Kartha group managing IIU itself is in turmoil.Though it has several colleges abroad but financial situation is in mess and turmoil.There is no crisis management team in this group.

Indus International university,Una,India
About IIU IIU has been established by the Indus International University(Establishment and Regulation) Act,2009, with the right to confer degree as per sections 2f and 22 of the UGC Act 1956.

IIU is sponsored by Kartha Education Society (Mumbai) a not for profit society with its mission being to provide quality education & research opportunities in under represented areas which haven't been served by the traditional public universities. Kartha Education Society (Mumbai) has been active in the field of education having run colleges, schools & other institutions for the past 19 years.

IIU has been set up as a non profit institution with its primary objective being to provide access to educational opportunities in various subject areas to students in rural india wherein students traditionally have had to travel to the other cities wherein the major public universities have been housed.

2012 strikes recently it has come to light that many academic programmers being run by this university are not recognized by UGC/AICTE.This has left future ad career of several students at stake.There is acute shortage of students in this institute.Kartha group itself is in crisis and there are no good persons to manage this group.