By IANS,
New Delhi : State universities should focus on research and academics and not just function as “affiliating agencies”, Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal Monday said.
“State universities should stop giving affiliations to colleges. Instead, they must focus on research and other academics that they are not doing properly these days,” said Sibal at a function in the Observer Research Foundation here.
“These universities are only making money by giving affiliation and this must stop. I have told state governments about it,” he added.
However, the minister said regulating the state universities is the job of state governments and the central government cannot do anything about it.