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IIT-Kanpur offers four-year undergraduate programmes- 27-Aug-2014
Lucknow: IIT-Kanpur offers four-year undergraduate programmes such as Bachelors in Science (BS) in Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and Economics, while UGC's list of recognised degrees only allows for a four-year BSc degree.
The UGC clarification referred to section 22 of UGC Act which said that "degree means any such degrees as may, with the previous approval of the Central Government, be specified in this behalf by the Commission by notification in the
official Gazette".
"Unfortunately, the aforementioned communication of the UGC has been misconstrued as an encroachment on the autonomy of Institutions of higher learning especially the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs)," it said.
The UGC letter, Prakash said, was a routine letter sent to all the degree-awarding institutions along with the Gazette Notification issued on July 5.
The HRD Ministry on the other hand appeared to be favouring UGC in this latest row as in a comment it has underlined the fact that the expression 'degrees' is not defined in the IIT Act, 1961.
It, however, has favoured a joint review of the IIT degrees both by UGC and IIT and arrive at an appropriate solution keeping student interests at stake.
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