About two lakh students of 44 deemed universities, which face the prospect of derecognition, were on Tuesday assured by the government  that they would all get degrees.

The government, which accepted the findings of an expert committee on the functioning of deemed universities and submitted them to the Supreme Court yesterday, has left it to the court to take a decision on the issue.

“Not a single child, not a single student will be adversely affected. Students of that university will get a university degree,” HRD minister Kapil Sibal said addressing the Social Editors Conference here.

He was replying to a question as to what would happen to the future of students studying in 44 deemed universities that have been recommended for being stripped of the status by the expert committee.

Nearly two lakh students are pursuing higher studies in these 44 institutions in 13 states which have been recommended for non-continuation of the deemed status as neither on past performance nor on their promise for the future have the attributes to retain the deemed status.

“We are restructuring the higher education sector. Hopefully, the deemed university concept will go,” he said adding not not a single deemed university has been derecognised so far.

“The Government has accepted the findings of the expert committee and submitted its findings to the Supreme Court which will decide the course of action to be taken,” he said. 
 

:: Universities in Dehradun Uttarakhand ::