What is the great need for deemed varsisites: SC

Updated on: Wednesday, September 30, 2009

New Delhi: The Supreme Court today posed a query to the Centre as to what was the "great need" for deemed universities in the country.

A bench of Justices Dalveer Bhandari and Mukundakam Sharma also asked the Centre whether any of the Indian deemed universities is having its branches in other countries of the world.

"We would like to know whether you have this system of deemed universities of yours in other foreign countries also.

What is the great need of the deemed universities?" the bench asked Solicitor General Gopal Subramaniam.

The bench posed the query while granting six more weeks to the Centre which has offered to submit a comprehensive report on the status of deemed universities in the country.

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