As Delhi ended up being the latest State to cancel final year university examinations in defiance of University Grants Commission (UGC) guidelines, both the Centre and the regulative firm repeated that guidelines were legally binding on the States and should be followed.
” As per the UGC Act, State federal governments can not take this choice. Unlike school education, which is on the State list, higher education is on the concurrent list. UGC and AICTE [All India Council for Technical Education] regulations have to be executed. It exists in the Act,” College Secretary Amit Khare informed The Hindu “It is not allowable for States to do like this. UGC does have the power to act. First we will try to take States on board.”
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