KSOU warned of stern action by Govt.

Updated on: Friday, May 11, 2012

Karnataka Government warned the Karnataka State Open University (KSOU) of stern action against its "illegal actions" including offerring some courses without approval by statutory authorities.
  
State Minister for Medical Education S A Ramdas at a press conference here alleged that KSOU has been offerring paramedical and nursing courses without approval by the state government and also indulged in serious violations by offerring technical courses without sanction from Distance Education Council (DSE) New Delhi.
  
KSOU based in Mysore has also issued advertisement in some dailies offering BE/B.Tech/ME/M.Tech/Diloma in Engineering and other Technical and professional programmes through distance mode and DSE has issued show cause notices and also threatened to withdraw the recognition, he said.
 
Ramdas, who also hails from Mysore said he would bring to the notice of the Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda the irregularities and warned the government would not hesitate to order registering of criminal complaint against the officials of the KSOU.

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