AICTE, UGC consulting lawyers on IIPM issue - Business Standard

The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and the University Grants Commission (UGC), both, are consulting their legal departments on the blocking of 73 Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) pertaining to content against the Indian Institute of Planning and Management (IIPM). Also, academic communities are mulling to begin a signature campaign and write to the Prime Minister to intervene in this matter. "We want to ask why did not the ministry of human resource and development take action IIPM earlier and allowed thousand students getting duped," said the director of a Noida-based B-school. Last week, a Gwalior court ordered blocking of various web pages after a business partner of Arindam Chaudhuri-led IIPM complained about "defamatory material" about the institute published on them. Also, Arindam Chaudhuri, head of IIPM described UGC and the AICTE "full of bribe-seeking corrupt officials". "With respect to UGC links, I should say UGC and AICTE are organisations full of bribe-seeking corrupt officials where, even at the top, they have a track record of being caught red-handed and being jailed. The standard of education they have created in the nation is shameful, to say the least. IIPM is proud to have no affiliation with them," Chaudhuri said. Shankar S Mantha, Chairman, AICTE said: "Whatever Chaudhuri is saying is non-sense. AICTE today has e-governance. It is a transparent and responsible organisation. Something that has happened in the past has no relevance today. It does not mean IIPM create its own system and discount the existing ones," said Mantha added that AICTE has declared all branches of IIPM as unapproved on its website. IIPM has 18 branches through out the country offering courses in Bachelor in Business Administration (BBA), Masters in Business Administration (MBA), Executive MBA and Bachelor of Computer Application (BCA). "We are talking to our lawyers to see what legal action can be taken against IIPM," a senior UGC official told Business Standard. Harivansh Chaturvedi, Director of the Birla Institute of Management and Technology (BIMTECH) and Alternate president of Education Promotion Society of India (EPSI) said UGC and AICTE should have cracked the whip on IIPM long ago. "I fail to understand who can a B-school which is neither registered with AICTE nor sought permission from UGC can be allowed to operate and flourish and take students for a ride?," said Chaturvedi. AICTE said it would be writing to state governments shortly on the unapproved institutions operating within their respective states. "We will file an FIR (first information report) also against these institutes if need be," said Mantha. via Technology - Google News http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNHtluc3UDhMAmasxXh08A0CXcf1RA&url=http://www.business-standard.com/article/management/aicte-ugc-consulting-lawyers-on-iipm-issue-113021800802_1.html

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