The Education Ministry has issued a notification declaring the National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT), as an institution deemed to be a university, enabling it to offer courses/programmes and confer degrees.
In the notification dated March 30, the Ministry said that the University Grants Commission (UGC) had approved the expert committee’s recommendations to grant deemed university status to the NCERT — a nodal school education body — in January this year, following which the Ministry declared the NCERT as one.
NCERT gets Deemed-to-be-University status, says Education Minister
The notification confers this status on the NCERT, along with its six regional institutes, provided that a list of conditions is met.
These conditions prevent the NCERT from indulging in any activities that are “commercial” and “profit-making” in nature, and mandate that all academic courses or programmes must conform to the norms and standards prescribed by the UGC and the concerned statutory bodies or councils.
