Regulator seeks to bail out genuine students

Bhanu P Lohumi

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Tribune News Service

Shimla, September 4

In order to bail out the genuine students of Manav Bharti University (MBU) in Solan which has been sealed after raids by a special investigation team (SIT) in a fake degree scam, the Himachal Pradesh Private Educational Institutions Regulatory Commission (HPPEIRC) has sent a proposal seeking appointment of an administrator to run the university.

“We have suggested to the government to facilitate a lateral admission of first and second-year students pursuing various courses in the MBU to other institutions to save their career,” said newly appointed chairman of the commission Major General (retd) Atul Kaushik.

There are about 1,500 regular students on the rolls in the university and due to the fake degree scam, teaching in the university has been badly hit after the chairman of the trust running the institutions was booked and arrested, he added. Degrees of regular students would be endorsed by the commission after verification to save their interest as some of the record is also in the possession of the commission, he added.

Some passouts of the university, under the banner of “Justice for Manav Bharti students’ group”, had asserted that their degrees were genuine but if the university authorities had indulged in any malpractice, they could not be made scapegoats as it would jeopardise their career.

These youth rued that most of them, who belonged to middle-class families, were on the brink of losing their jobs or had already lost them as verification of documents was not being done by any agency. They urged the state government to expedite the SIT investigation and help them out.