Soon after the directive issued by the Supreme Court on the deemed university issue, Union human resources development minister Kapil Sibal on Tuesday said the ministry will issue showcause notices to all deemed universities. He also assured that a decision in each case will be taken within the stipulated timeframe. “Now that
the Supreme Court has asked us, we will be issuing show-cause notices to each one of them and within the time frame mentioned in the report we will decide on each and every individual case,” Mr Sibal stated.
Mr Sibal stated that a policy decision will soon be taken on the matter. “The government has not decided anything yet. There was an expert committee report. In principle, we agree with the expert committee report,” he said.
The government had assured the Supreme Court it would have a re-look at the decision to derecognise the 44 deemed universities which lacked appropriate academic infrastructure standards.